Infrastructure investment is great when it's paid for. This bipartisan infrastructure package's pay-fors are either completely phony or don't quite cut the mustard. Thread:
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9. CLAIM: $2.9 billion interest rate smoothing options for defined benefit pension plans FACT: Interest rate smoothing is a creative accounting gimmick that rears its head in Washington every few years. It was a gimmick then, it's a gimmick now.
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This $550 billion of spending is on top of the baseline which already isn't paid for. The Highway Reauthorization has a $100B deficit. Real pay-fors in this bill (future spectrum auctions, Bitcoin tax, GSE fees, and a Superfund tax) should be used to cover that shortfall.
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Even if these rosy CBO estimates are accurate, that still leaves us a day late and several hundred billion dollars short. The bipartisan infrastructure bill is NOT paid for.
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Money wasted on a f—king worthless wall!
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Legalize weed, and cocaine as it sells for more, and that's covered.
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Here's $41 Billion that's doing nobody any good. Are we still in Iraq?https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/chapter/economics …
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And done: almost $50 Billion in foreign aid.https://www.concernusa.org/story/foreign-aid-by-country/ …
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