President Joe Biden’s surrogates will crisscross the country this week talking up the hundreds of billions he’s pumping into projects such as roads, clean energy, drinking water and broadband — an effort designed to draw a sharp contrast with his predecessor’s series of ineffectual “infrastructure weeks.”
The White House hopes the message will help convince Americans that Biden’s programs are improving their lives, just months before they head to the voting booth.
Infrastructure Week, which begins Monday, was already an annual industry gathering and D.C. lobbying fly-in before Trump’s administration borrowed the name for its unsuccessful attempts to pitch a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that would have offered little new federal funding. Now, Biden’s White House is embracing the real event — and dispatching stand-ins such as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, senior White House adviser Tom Perez and acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to appearances around the country.
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I guess we should just let our infrastructure keep falling apart and let Corporate America keep all her profits. No problem falling further and further behind on R&D. This country needs the shot in the arm that President Biden is proposing and it needs to be paid
@PlatypusZoeGreen2wks2W
When I first came to the US, I was expecting sheer greatness. Instead, I found a crumbling country. From its old transportation technology to its poor planned and managed parks and everything in between, you would think this is a "second-world country."
I will happily continue to pay taxes/use my hard earned money if it means that I can take a train that won't break or will be on time, if it means that big companies can continue to grow and build their workforce thanks to better infrastructure, if it means that white folks in Arkansas, blacks in Georgia, asians in NY, latinos in Texas, and American Indians in Iowa, will have the well-paid jobs they deserve.
Great personal fortunes were created as a result of irresponsible Republican tax cuts while our infrastructure was allowed to deteriorate. In addition to a corporate tax increase, those fortunes should be taxed to help defray the cost of rebuilding.
We haven’t adequately invested in our infrastructure needs for decades and will not remain competitive unless we do. It is crucial that we invest in clean energy technology, more scientific research and build the energy and information infrastructure needed to prosper (and survive) the 21st century.
We haven’t adequately invested in our infrastructure needs for decades and will not remain competitive unless we do. It is crucial that we invest in clean energy technology, more scientific research and build the energy and information infrastructure needed to prosper (and survive) the 21st century.
Corporations could not profit without a good infrastructure. Their products rely on roads and the internet.
Those that say taxing them destroys jobs or hurts competitiveness should consider that taxes are paid on profits only.
Like him or not, this is what you get when you elect a competent leader that hires qualified people.
Policies, plans and ideas that move our country forward and help the American people.
@MercifulUrchinGreen2wks2W
Just think, there could come a time when one doesn't have to travel to Europe to see how nice things can be.
We could have our own smooth roads, high-speed rail, efficient subways, and airports and transit hubs that aren't an embarrassment but something to be proud of.
If the U.S. hopes to call itself a first-world country, this plan needs to come to fruition.
@BrainyDemocraticForward2wks2W
The very same people who rail against China are the ones who don’t want to spend any money on investments that would help restore America’s competitive advantage against China. Go figure!
The Business Roundtable has promoted trickle-down economics for more than 40 years, and it's only made corporations and their shareholders wealthier. Sorry, it's time for a change.
We haven’t adequately invested in our infrastructure needs for decades and will not remain competitive unless we do. It is crucial that we invest in clean energy technology, more scientific research and build the energy and information infrastructure needed to prosper (and survive) the 21st century.
This is very exciting and long, long overdue. The infrastructure of the United States is a crumbling, dangerous embarrassment. One need only look to Japan, China, and countries in Europe to see how far behind we've fallen. We are in desperate need of an infrastructure that meets the reality of the 21st century and takes seriously the existential threats of climate change. It will also provide many desperately needed jobs.
@B4llotBoxParrotDemocrat2wks2W
How is the private sector going to fix state and federal highways or the electrical grid? How is the private sector going to put broadband in rural areas? We've tried that. They don't care, because it's not profitable. How are they going to get rid of lead pipes in our drinking supply? Why should they care about mass transit or climate change if it doesn't increase their quarterly profit?
Here's the reality: corporations make money using publicly financed roads, airports, water supplies, educated workers, an electrical grid, an internet developed by tax dollars, drugs whose basic r&d is funded by tax dollars, and on and on. But they don't want to pay a dime to help support the society that makes that possible.
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