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January 27, 2015 11:34 AM UTC
13 Comments
If Bartels didn't report that these people a complete idiots, she's not doing her job.
If Government would just get out of the way, our roads and bridges would repair themselves. Like Transformers, or something.
Or we could just completely privatize and let private companies take over every single road and bridge and make them all toll paid. Wait. Wouldn't that be a lot like paying really, really high taxes?
Shh! As long as it falls by design most heavily upon the poor and middle class (just the way the GOP likes it), it's not a "tax" — it's a "user fee." They would NEVER "raise taxes"!
I forgot. Like when the payroll tax break was the only one Rs did want to end.
It's not a tax if the $$$$ goes into the pockets of private individuals or businesses. That's call freedom.
And if those private contractors make billions of those tax dollars go poof while electrocuting our soldiers in their showers, well that's the price of trickle down freedom.
No, the Sacred Market will create a solution. Crumbling roads and bridges? Screw the DOT, a subsidiary for the E-470 parent entity will materialize. (Hell, it can even exercise its own free speech and religion rights under the First Amendment.) We don't need no damn gubmint to build roads and bridges.
Small-minded liberal solutions . . .
. . . the answer is obvious: Flying cars! Hoverboards! Unicorns! 30-round magazines! (and if you don't understand how that last one helps, your liberal mind is already flying the surrender-monkey flag . . .)
. . . as soon as you get off the backs of our entrepreneurs, we'll have all the solutions that the Neville's need!
True that. I read that when taxes approach zero unicorns, in fact, approach infinity!
And we all get to swim in a bath tub!
and find enough room in the bathtub to drown the government
The Nevilles, along with all of the Republicans in the legislature except perhaps Sen. Ellen Roberts, would rather see the public put in harms way by exposing motorists to crumbling infrastructure rather than solve a very practical problem.
All of this outlines and exposes a critical weakness in today's Republican philosophy and policy preferences. The Party is controlled by people who absolutely refuse to acknowledge that government has any purpose or that revenues are required to solve real issues and problems (i.e. infrastructure). Because of that ideology, Republicans are never in favor of any public programs aside from police, fire and the military; but they can't admit to the electorate that they don't believe government should address anything and therefore they come up with subterfuges like this to distract attention from their bottom line. They assert they are protecting the taxpayer while simultaneously exposing the same people to catastrophic harm when a bridge or road fails. Instead of this nonsense, why don't they try and find a way to fix our roads and bridges through an alternative funding mechanism.
Besides that, by refusing to fund infrastructure, or as in this case defund such projects, they are also directly harming some of those "job creators" known in this case as the free market contractors who bid on such projects.
Once upon a time, Republicans thought that building and maintaining infrastructure was good for commerce and trade. Remember, it was that Marxist-Leninist Dwight Eisenhower who signed the Interstate Highway Act into law. Today, Ike would be branded a RINO and turned into a Democrat.