Ugh, one of NC’s principle eternally shitty elements is the staunch opposition to proper mass transit. Light rail through the Triangle w/ a separate system for the Charlotte metro would alleviate so many issues, esp. with a high speed proper train between the two.
Cries in rejected federal funding for a Tampa-Orlando high speed rail line
Emphasis added. Who says the GOP isn’t the working class party?
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In that last line, Psaki was referring to Biden’s plan to pay for his proposal, which involves things like raising the corporate tax rate and changing how capital gains are taxed. Economists are all in on this idea. But naturally, Republicans—including some former Trump administration officials—are pitching a fit. GOP operatives, including former Vice President Mike Pence former top aide Marc Short , have formed a group called the Coalition to Protect American Workers that aims not to protect American workers, but to keep Biden from raising rich peoples’ taxes—something Short told Axios would “stifle our economy as the country is finally emerging from a pandemic.”
Alstein
2061
As long as it goes through the Triad I’d be fine with it. They need things too.
Scrax
2062
Makes me think of the ever present war over connecting Norfolk, VA and VA Beach via light rail.
I think in the most recent abortive attempt here, Duke University in Durham wound up being the party to piss in everyone else’s cheerios, unwilling to put up with stops being built near/on the campus to, you know, benefit their own students.
Aren’t tidal forces effectively a rope to the moon?
Just had a thought that the major difference we’re seeing between Obama and Biden is that Obama was a newcomer to DC. He barely spent two years in the Senate before getting elected president. He had a bit of a naïve/optimistic outlook that he could change things through persuasion and logic.
Biden has spent his whole life on the Hill. Decades spent trying to get all sorts of meaningful legislation passed, and getting frustrated by GOP intransigence. Now that the Dems have rare control of Congress and the White House, he’s not wasting any time to move the entire Democratic agenda forward finally.
CraigM
2066
In a way, yes.
But it’s complicated. however in theory there is some potential there
Alstein
2067
The trans troop ban is now officially reversed.
Well that, and he has hindsight on Obama’s 8 years of being stonewalled.
Thrag
2069
A closer look at Biden’s package:
Made a slight edit for fun:
Taco trucks on every corner is the kind of government I can get behind 100%.
I just knew they were gonna sneak those in somehow!
Imagine being such a piece of shit, such a garbage human being, such an empathy-lacking waste of skin, that you look at those plans and get mad about Democrats.
Self select yourselves into a floating trash pile in the middle of the ocean, you choad garglers.
Is “caretaking” the normal usage for that? I would normally expect “caregiving”. Or specifically in a UK context “social care”.
Spending $2 trillion on good things for the infrastructure, economy and citizens of America?
Smells like SOCIALISM to me!!! Who is going to pay for all this shit? The rich? Corporations? Insanity!
My first reaction: It seems like there’s too little on transportation infrastructure?
On Marketplace Morning report this morning they said because of the great recession, we spent $1 trillion less on Public Infrastructure in 2009-2019 than we would have if the great recession hadn’t hit. So all this $1 trillion does is let us catch up the infrastructure to where we would be without the great recession. In the story they said civil engineers say the country needs $3-4 trillion on infrastructure.
On one hand, building more roads is the last thing we as a species need. It depends on where that investment is going. Fewer mega highways. More mass transit.
