Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg boldly told KTLA Sunday that the “infrastructure” plan will stop climate change.
The nearly $1.2 trillion plan, hanging on by a thread with the support of 11 Senate Republicans, spends heavily on electric vehicles and other Democrat pet causes redefined as “infrastructure.”
Buttigieg pitched the plan to the news station, saying: “As the West has been impacted by extreme weather events and some of the heat waves that have been going on, this is not going to go away.”
He added, “We need to take serious climate action to stop it from getting worse and that’s part of what will happen, thanks to these investments we’re proposing to make on everything from electric vehicle infrastructure to more resilient infrastructure planning in our communities.”
Buttigieg touted the current bipartisan support for the plan, based in part, on “financing” that includes increased activity by the Internal Revenue Service to pursue taxpayers.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) told Politico that the idea “has some red flags among Republicans,” who are concerned it will lead to targeting by the Biden administration.
“Part of the motivation is trying to make certain that we don’t spend $6 trillion,” he said, something the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has indicated is possible. If “this is lending itself toward that outcome then I would no longer be a yes at that point in time.”
Another Republican senator in the group of 11, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, said he is not “100 percent committed to voting for the bipartisan plan,” according to Politico.
“We don’t know what’s in it yet,” Rounds said. “I’m favorably impressed with what’s been done, but we’re going to wait and look at the final thing. So there’s still a lot of negotiations going on.”
“We need Congress to act, pass this through the House and Senate, and get it to the President’s desk so we can sign it,” the transportation secretary told KTLA.
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If we just listen to Great all will be fine … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJkQP8O4bo
Sacrificing Buttigieg to the climate gods will stop climate change. Do it today.
Lollipop is lying out his a$$ as all leftists are doing……..
Butter Legs is a total idiot he is a typical liberal Tax & Spend Liberal Democrat and thinking(Which is hard for Liberal Democrat)about more taxes to lay upon the American People
He has Dip-Wad stamped all over his face
Buttigieg is right in one way. “As the West has been impacted by extreme weather events and some of the heat waves that have been going on, this is not going to go away.” They are not going away because we have always had such events. According to the IPCC, these events are not increasing. If the one degree C increase in temperature that we have experience so far is enough to cause dramatic impacts, then the best we can do is focus on adaptation.
From the linked article: “A White House fact-sheet stated the plan will cost at least $2 trillion dollars over a decade and senior administration officials noted it would be funded primarily by raising the corporate tax rate to what it was before the Trump administration’s 2017 tax cuts.”
And, of course, the Democrats somehow believe that raising the corporate tax rate will be paid from existing corporate revenue and not by treating the increase as just another overhead increase, passing it down to the consumer. Unless they can somehow guarantee that the corporations will just eat the tax increase themselves, any corporate tax increase will land on the shoulders of the customers — the people the Democrats claim won’t be paying any increased taxes. Well, I suppose that’s true in a purely technical sense — they won’t be paying increased taxes; they’ll just be paying higher prices that the corporations will use to pay their taxes.