It's not even gonna be 1.5 trillion, its gonna end up being nothing or means tested so much that no one will actually benefit while conservatives get to complain you spent any money at all.
I don’t understand how they don’t get this by now. Well, I do understand, it’s that they also don’t want to do good things, and get to say “Oh darn! The conservatives stopped us again!” if they pretend they don’t understand.
But this happens every time! In order to get something actually valuable passed, start the budget for said project at like, 100 trillion dollars a year, and tell them to compromise down from there.
It's not even gonna be 1.5 trillion, its gonna end up being nothing or means tested so much that no one will actually benefit while conservatives get to complain you spent any money at all.
I don’t understand how they don’t get this by now. Well, I do understand, it’s that they also don’t want to do good things, and get to say “Oh darn! The conservatives stopped us again!” if they pretend they don’t understand.
But this happens every time! In order to get something actually valuable passed, start the budget for said project at like, 100 trillion dollars a year, and tell them to compromise down from there.