Trump's infrastructure-privatization plan does nothing to help fix the roads in our neighborhoods, the bridges in our cities or the highways in our states. Giant corporations aren't going to take the tax break to do that because it doesn't make them a profit. Cities like Flint need their water systems upgraded and giant multinational companies aren't going to take a tax break to do that, either.
Giant, multinational companies are going to take Trump's infrastructure tax breaks to do things they are already planning on doing anyway. And that's not about making We the People's lives better -- not by a long shot.
The moral of the story is: Don't just be for something because it's called "infrastructure." What the country needs is actual public investment in actual infrastructure like actual water and sewage systems and actual roads and actual bridges that fixes problems the actual public actually has, and that the actual public can actually all use without having to pay private companies to do so. And we need to tax the rich and giant corporations to get that done. Trump's plan is exactly the opposite. It's nothing more than another con.
The lesson to be learned is: If Donald Trump and Republicans are proposing something that sounds good on the surface, we all need to look deeper and figure out what con game they are running this time. It's a good idea to learn this lesson now because it is going to be a long four years of con games, gimmicks, tricks, fraud and outright dishonest frauds.
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