Bad Infrastructure Proposal
The so-called 'bipartisan infrastructure' proposal is about as bad as it gets. First, there's only a lousy $579 billion in new spending, which is a fraction of what Biden originally proposed even for just the hard infrastructure.
Second, the 'pay-fors' are even worse. Forcing state and local governments to RAISE TAXES to pay for the broadband expansion, taking money from the emergency covid Unemployment Insurance fund, unspecified repurposed emergency funding from COVID-19 relief bills, which means money intended to go to state and local governments to shore up public health and to continue fighting coronavirus would be redirected, selling broadband spectrum, and mandatory cuts to other programs in extending the sequester(?).
The absolute WORST, is the public/private partnerships. Selling off public assets to private corporations, so they can then charge consumers astronomical fees for the rest of their natural lives, while the corporations rake in obscene profits.
There's no concrete agreement that the eleven Repubs will vote for it, or that Moscow Mitch won't find a way to scuttle it, but hopefully the Repubs will sink it all by themselves, as they object to what the Dems include in the reconciliation bill.
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I’m sure that was the plan all along. 
Kee-riste. 
you mean I added additional facts as they subsequently presented themselves, you're welcome.
