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[–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

You missed the point. We do not have to increase taxes to achieve this. We just have to stop bombing the shit out of half the world and reallocate that funding.

Our taxes could stay exactly the same. Of course the lobbyists prefer we spend billions and billions on pointless wars and the military, but we don't get shit from it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    Only if the federal government paid for it, and they won't for the reasons I mentioned. No use catering to a vote they already have.

    I don't like it any more than you do, but it's a massive side effect of the way our government works. Swing states are the only things that matter and none of them are in need of high speed rail

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