One striking thing about the "debate" over Biden's jobs bill is that Republicans no longer even bother to offer an argument -- and no one bothers to ask -- WHY we should invest less, or WHY we would invest only in roads & bridges and not in, say, electricity transmission.
It is both intuitively obvious & in line with every economics textbook that these long-term investments in physical & human capital are what keep a country strong. Money's still pretty cheap; there's no particular reason to worry about the deficit right now. So ...
... WHY do Republicans want to invest less in America's future? Seriously: why? They've just been kneejerk braindead opposed to Government Doing Anything for so long that we have, collectively, given up on asking them to justify it. We just take the nihilism for granted.
We have one party that, when it takes charge, tries to invest in the country's future & improve the material conditions of its citizens, & another party that, when it takes charge, imposes suffering on immigrants & trans people, & we're just acclimated to it, like it's normal.
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