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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2993 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: $100 trillion up in smoke

Democrats always do big infrastructure pushes. Republicans always wait for democrats to do big infrastructure pushes. It makes democrats look good because public works and increased jobs and obvious tax dollar benefit. It makes republicans look bad because tax dollars and socialism. It shouldn't be an issue but red staters (and red countiers) always lose their shit about public works projects that they don't physically drive over every single day and when you point out that even Ayn Rand drove on a public freeway from time to time they grumble and change the subject.

It shouldn't be an issue, but it will always be an issue.