It is, solely, the fault of disinterested constituents that congress get away with passing laws for special interests and corporate lobby rather than the country at large.
Or maybe several hundred million individual Americans are each bad, lazy people. That sounds more likely.
Everything else you are saying is retarded dogma wrapped in utter brainrot.
Tax payers are slowly and increasenly burdened by said debt.
They are basically saying that when some current law is expiring (such as some of the 2017 Trump tax cuts) a bill that extends that law or makes it permanent should count as having zero cost.
If this goes through it means any party that gets a majority in the Senate can pretty much get anything through via budget reconciliation (which is supposed to only be allowed for deficit-neutral things) which cannot be filibustered by simply putting a time limit on it and then later making it permanent.
For example, Democrats pointed out that next time they have a majority they could pass universal free healthcare with a one year expiration with enough taxes and/or spending cuts elsewhere to make it deficit neutral for that one year, and then next year pass a bill making the universal healthcare permanent part permanent and letting the taxes or cuts expire.
This bill making the healthcare permanent would have zero cost under the new Republican rules and so could also be done via budget reconciliation, and so just need a majority to pass.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-a-gop-accounting-maneuver...
Oh wait, were you being serious?
Look at which programs are being cut vs expanded, and their relative cost vs benefit.
Basic arithmetic says this bill is designed to do maximal damage to the future of the US.
For instance, the energy star program saves an average taxpayer 1000x what they pay in taxes to fund it, and is supported by industry, consumer, environmental groups, democrats and republicans.
So, of course it’s getting killed.
Why?
Because connecting existing cities with 220-250mph trains will maximize the current US Southwest infrastructure so we do not need to develop new federal lands.
[PS: The BLM and non-BLM region between Phoenix and Vegas is laced with Naturally Occurring Asbestos and the BLM region between Vegas and Tonopah, East to California is largely still radioactive or in active use by the federal government, so unsuitable for new city development.]
toomuchtodo•7mo ago