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Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com)
The Trump administration has released an infrastructure plan on Monday that proposes that the federal government considers selling off Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport. According to Trump's blueprint, the administration wants to allow federal agencies to divest assets if they "can demonstrate an increase in value from the sale would optimize the taxpayer value for federal assets." It also includes the George Washington and Baltimore Washington parkways, the Washington Aqueduct and the transmission assets of the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bonneville Power Administration on the list for "potential divesture." Politico reports: State and local agencies or the private sector may be better at managing assets currently owned by the federal government, the administration argues, and federal agencies should be able to "identify appropriate conditions under which sales would be made." They should also "delineate how proceeds would be spent." Under the administration's proposal, federal agencies would have to complete an analysis demonstrating an "increase in value from divestiture." Though technically owned by the federal government, both airports are operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority under a long-term lease agreement. The 53-page infrastructure plan lays out a vision to turn $200 billion in federal money into $1.5 trillion for fixing America's infrastructure by leveraging local and state dollars and private investment. "The White House says its plan will create $1.5 trillion for repairing and upgrading America's infrastructure," reports CNNMoney. "Only $200 billion of that, however, would come from direct federal spending. The rest is supposed to come from state and local governments, which are expected to match any federal allocation by at least a four-to-one ratio. States have gradually assumed more of the responsibility for funding infrastructure in recent years, and the White House says it wants to accelerate that trend."
As for how the money would be split up, the plan says that half of the new federal money, $100 billion, "would be parceled out as incentives to local government entities," reports CNNMoney. "An additional $20 billion would go toward 'projects of national significance' that can 'lift the American spirit,'" while another $50 billion will be designated "for rural block grants, most of which will be given to states according to a formula based on the miles of rural roads and the rural population they have," reports CNNMoney. "The rest of the money would support other infrastructure-related undertakings..."
As for how the money would be split up, the plan says that half of the new federal money, $100 billion, "would be parceled out as incentives to local government entities," reports CNNMoney. "An additional $20 billion would go toward 'projects of national significance' that can 'lift the American spirit,'" while another $50 billion will be designated "for rural block grants, most of which will be given to states according to a formula based on the miles of rural roads and the rural population they have," reports CNNMoney. "The rest of the money would support other infrastructure-related undertakings..."
The only people I have seen tearing down historic icons are the alt left trying to rewrite actual historical fact in the southern states by tearing down monuments and statues of historical figures... Trump is proposing to privatize money losing infrastructure that is in bad need of repair and modernization.
As far as limited-development areas, we should be developing land to it's best use to the entire nation, not just the 5% eco-nut special interests because they are the most vocal and violent.
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AC hiding behind a BS post and probably sock puppet up mods BS because that has happened ZERO times in the last year, and Trump is only proposing to privatize infrastructure to facilitate massive amounts of infrastructure spending in a responsible way. Obama was the one that took the stimulus money and gave it to his supporters (for some reason, the Dims are always projecting their moral shortfalls on the conservatives), but it doesn't work because, unlike the Dims, we actually keep track of actual facts, not just emotions and virtue signalling.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...
https://www.ocregister.com/201...
At the end of the day, Obama PISSED AWAY $8,000,000,000,000 and got an average of 1% growth for 8 years because he was a corrupt Chicago politician giving everything away for politics. Trump is only spending $200B and he is leveraging that into $1.5T of infrastructure spending, which is massive and badly needed.
People need to stop listening to the Dims and the hysterical MSM and just look at what Trump is actually doing. The good news is that as the economy continues to roar along after it got out from under the Obama administration and now as everyone sees the infrastructure revitalized, it will be impossible for the MSM and Dims to lie about the current state of affairs with any credibility.
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So far Trump has sold off consumer interests by undermining FCC and the CFPB. He has also sold off the Grand Escalante Monument - it's already done.
And please note that Bush pissed away a freaking surplus and so Obama inherited the deepest deficit ever during his first year. So please sock up about corrupt politicians. You know nothing of what you're speaking.