Boehner: We Want Jobs But Not Those Jobs
The House GOP seems very excited about job creation when those jobs involve oil production. But when they involve critical infrastructure like our nation’s highways? Not so much. John Boehner shot down attempts to save the highway trust fund with an increase to the gas tax.
Click here for reuse options!The United States used to be the world leader on infrastructure, and as Reagan’s support for higher gas taxes makes clear, this used to be a bipartisan issue.Those days are over.David Brooks recently argued that there’s a “completely obvious” way to boost American job creation: “The federal government should borrow money at current interest rates to build infrastructure…. The fact that the federal government has not passed major infrastructure legislation is mind-boggling, considering how much support there is from both parties.”And that would be a perfectly reasonable argument, were it not for the fact that support is limited to one party, not two.
Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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Denise January 14th, 2015 at 10:56
What Brooks has between his ears is nothing. He is such an idiot!
Denise January 14th, 2015 at 11:56
What Brooks has between his ears is nothing. He is such an idiot!
Detected_as_spam January 20th, 2015 at 14:07
We Want Jobs But Not Those Jobs… until then Americans can get kicked out of their homes and go hungry without healthcare.
$129617082 January 20th, 2015 at 15:07
We Want Jobs But Not Those Jobs… until then Americans can get kicked out of their homes and go hungry without healthcare.
rg9rts January 22nd, 2015 at 15:23
Boner wants jobs like Ernst and Huckster…pad the payroll or suck off the government teat
rg9rts January 22nd, 2015 at 16:23
Boner wants jobs like Ernst and Huckster…pad the payroll or suck off the government teat