Grant Stern - Trump Just Told The Truth, And It's More Terrifying Than His Racism And Lies
Donald Trump just
released a pair of true statements about policy which should horrify anyone in
the 99% about the Republican’s plan to foster income inequality and a vast
expansion of highway taxation on regular people. It’s only days from
the election ending, Donald Trump’s campaign just released the Republican
nominee’s plan to cut $100 billion dollars in federal climate change spending
over eight years, presumably to pay for the ridiculous tax cuts
to the rich he proposes.
In late October, Trump
also announced another policy; to turn America’s highways and byways
into a for-profit business venture, letting Wall Street charge rent from
millions of Americans on private highways across the country….
It’s been days since
the Trump campaign revealed its federal climate change spending policy was
unveiled, but the mainstream media hasn’t even noticed. It’s not slapstick or
dirty talk, there’s no room for coverage. The Trump private
roads and transportation plan was unveiled on Oct. 27th, but the full impact took a
few days to be understood. When the Republican
candidate claims at rallies to want a trillion dollars in infrastructure
spending, naturally voters assume that the assets would be publicly owned and
free to use. But nobody is awake at
the switch, outside of Slate.
In fact, Trump’s
transportation infrastructure plan would privatize most of the new construction,
make it all
toll driven and concentrated in wealthy areas…
While a third-party
might promise the moon and the stars, letting Republicans take over the Oval
Office with Trump guarantees that climate change efforts will be defunded,
quickly. The first beneficiary
of that kind of environmental know nothing-ism would be the Koch Brothers, oil
companies and the wealthiest of the wealthy who will get the savings on their
tax bills when Trump slashes every form of taxation on the rich to benefit
himself and the top 1% of earners.
And anyone who drives
would feel the pinch of the only new roads being expensive toll lanes which
connect wealthy areas to one another - potentially bypassing the poorer areas. None of this is what
Trump supporters think that the candidate is pitching, but they’re blissfully
unaware that any policy exists from their campaign.
A policy to deliver
America’s infrastructure to Wall Street and give away our green energy
investment funds to billionaires for tax breaks. I guess that’ll make
America great for billionaires and infrastructure companies, but the rest of us
may be less than thrilled... read more
