re: #559 jamesfirecat

So lets spend on infrastructure and cut taxes at the same time. It doesn’t have to be either or.

This of course brings up the issue of “where is the money gonna come from from” but can do can we agree to move on to that topic?

Sure. I’ve said repeatedly that spending money to achieve a noteworthy but lofty goal is much more attractive to me than spending to achieve “infrastructure”.

So i’d be all in favor of, say, overhauling our power grid so that we don’t lose nearly as much energy through transmission. That’s spending which not only creates jobs, but leaves something more beneficial than three extra bridges in its wake. Short-term benefits + long-term awesomeness = a good jobs creation spending idea.

Make sense? I don’t want to build more roads. I want to build something that we private citizens aren’t yet ready to build on our own, but would benefit immensely by the effort.