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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">When is the last time you heard somebody announce the construction of 4,000 miles of railroad without mentioning where it would run?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6853DB20100906"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6853DB20100906</span></span></a></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The above article says they can get the money by closing tax loopholes on oil companies, which is nice sounding rhetoric for raising our taxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes it sound like oil companies will have to pay for it, and we all hate oil companies, so no problem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes it sound like there is an ongoing gift to the oil companies, and if we just take it away from them, it will be free money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the fact is that if you confiscate $50-billion from the oil companies, it will come right out of our pockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it were free money just lying there for the taking, why have we not already taken it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Creating a new infrastructure bank is one more opportunity to expand government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many thousands of new, well-paid employees will staff the new infrastructure bank?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The president says that the reason for the new bank is to insulate the big spending projects from politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well politics is us—we the people, who are supposed to have a voice in how our money gets spent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The public sector spending machine should not be insulated from the say-so of the public.</span></span></span></p>
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