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Maryland senator: Federal government to cover 90 percent of bridge rebuild costs
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| 03/28/2024
| AL WEAVER
Posted on 03/28/2024 11:05:06 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Wrong. Taxpayers have to pay for the Black Swan crisis, which must not go to waste.
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posted on
03/28/2024 12:09:23 PM PDT
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
To: TexasFreeper2009
"insurance companies should be paying not US taxpayers!"Campaign contributions to Demonicrat politicians are a lot cheaper for insurance companies than paying for the bridge rebuild costs.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Yea. A Great Big Slush Fund.
To: ChicagoConservative27
They should be able to take a loan from it then pay it back using the bridge tolls.
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posted on
03/28/2024 12:28:45 PM PDT
by
Thunder90
(All posts soley represent my own opinions)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Are they going to "build back better"?
......sorry
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posted on
03/28/2024 12:31:17 PM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: kenmcg
God analysis!
I would add t6hat there will be huge damages from the shipping closure of the Baltimore port.
There are thousands of jobs on hold.
There are about twenty boats stranded inside the port, unable to leave. The cost of even a day of delay in shipping industry is huge.
There are many more boats, stranded outside the port, waiting to get in. These could be re-routed, but again, the cost of delay and re-rout is pretty high.
There are cost of lost business from customers, not getting their cargo delivered on time.
That is what come to my mind, there are likely a lot more costs!
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posted on
03/28/2024 12:35:18 PM PDT
by
AZJeep
To: Steven Scharf
Actually, IIRC it technically was part of the MD State highway system, NOT part of the official Federal system even though it was labeled like the Fed system. Give them funding for hazmat/oversize load river crossing ferries and local road upgrades enough to connect the two sides of the river landings to the functioning ends of the old "intrastate" from the "emergency" fund. That solves the national part of the emergency in which that nationally important kind of traffic "couldn't get there from here" and does so much sooner than building new bridge could. The result would be inconvenient and slower, but no longer an emergency. But such traffic almost never is time dependent and and upgrading that result could easily wait for non-emergent, routine, funding.
The rest of the problem is that local, intra-Maryland, commuter traffic either has to go out its way some distance or takes longer because of increased traffic congestion. Lots of places pleading for federal upgrades of such nuisances. Took about 30 years for the Feds to get around to upgrading my community's biggest such from when I saw the need. And it both crossed state lines and had higher traffic volume than had the Key bridge. Let MD go through routine competition vs. other griping states for Federal funding. If they want faster results, spend their own, or insurance money.
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posted on
03/28/2024 12:44:59 PM PDT
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Luckily a train wasn’t crossing that bridge at the time of the collision.
Of course, the bridge will be p0aid for by those who never use it. It’s Bidenomics, y’all.
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posted on
03/28/2024 1:26:13 PM PDT
by
ABStrauss
(I miss Rush! )
To: ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told reporters that roughly 90 percent of the bridge’s reconstruction will be paid for via the Federal Highway Administration’s emergency fund by U.S. taxpayers.Fixed.
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posted on
03/28/2024 1:36:40 PM PDT
by
Major Matt Mason
(To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
The don’t want the shipping company paying even one dime BECAUSE, congress criminals are salivating - over the graft corruption and kickbacks coming, from taxpayer funds.
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posted on
03/28/2024 1:41:48 PM PDT
by
Swanks
To: kenmcg
Taxpayers will pay to rebuild, then the govt will go after the ships insurance, and collect billions with which to line their pockets. If you lose money via your CA house being melted or burned to the ground, they will use taxpayer funds to partially help you, while raking every ill gotten gain the power company had into THEIR hands.
We live in a klepto/Communist system
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posted on
03/28/2024 1:53:33 PM PDT
by
Glad2bnuts
(“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Maybe FJB will get all the insurance money. Not a single Lame Stream Media outlet would say a word about it.
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posted on
03/28/2024 2:01:04 PM PDT
by
Colt1851Navy
(What was wrong with Nixon?)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I still think it was a deliberate “Accident”.
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posted on
03/28/2024 3:10:19 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
To: ABStrauss
There were no train tracks on that bridge.
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posted on
03/28/2024 3:38:24 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Yup! 10% for the Big Guy!
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posted on
03/28/2024 3:55:09 PM PDT
by
Pennsyltucky Boy
(bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA)
To: Pennsyltucky Boy
Rename the river under the bridge after Joe Biden. How about Crooked Creek?
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posted on
03/28/2024 4:08:54 PM PDT
by
Colt1851Navy
(What was wrong with Nixon?)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Federal government to cover 90 percent of bridge rebuild costsTAXPAYERS!!!
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posted on
03/28/2024 6:40:11 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
03/28/2024 6:45:18 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
(Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
To: Carriage Hill
But..but..but..Biden said he had traversed across that bridge “by vehicle or train” many times! Didn’t his son Beau help build the bridge? And the train that went across it? 🙄
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posted on
03/28/2024 6:48:45 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
(Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
To: Elsie
Federal government to cover 90 percent of bridge rebuild costsDo I hear 80%? Going, going...
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