Trump Plans to Cancel $929 Million for California Bullet Train, Wants State to Pay Back $2.5 Billion
POSTED 3:48 PM, FEBRUARY 19, 2019, BY
ASSOCIATED PRESS, UPDATED AT 07:09PM, FEBRUARY 19, 2019
https://ktla.com/2019/02/19/trump-p...et-train-wants-state-to-pay-back-2-5-billion/
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it plans to cancel $929 million awarded to California's high-speed rail project and wants the state to return an additional $2.5 billion that it has already spent.
The U.S. Department of Transportation announcement follows through on President Donald Trump's threats to claw back $3.5 billion that the federal government gave to California to build a bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed a fight to keep the money and said the move was in response to California again suing the administration , this time over Trump's emergency declaration to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
That thing is gonna cost California 75 billion+...
$75 billion dollars for a highspeed train so upper-class and rich folks don't have to wait in traffic.
All the libs in that state constantly squawk about "We don't have money for a wall, border security, ICE, etc...we want to provide cradle to grave entitlements for all...and on and on...we need more money"
I don't have a problem with a train, and I don't have a problem if they want to fund cradle to grave entitlements on their own...but they need to practice what they preach about taxing the rich and take it out of Silicon Valley and Hollywood's pocket...see how long those cozy relationships last once the Zuckerbergs and Spielbergs of the world have to start paying an ultra-rich tax...
Don't go b*tching at the President for things he wants to spend money on when the billions the feds loaned you could have helped pay for the wall that apparently there was no money for...
California is a great example of how extreme liberalism fu*ks up a good thing. That state has all the tools to be a utopia. Climate, geography, population, industries.
Sillicon Valley, music/entertainment/hollwood, tourism, farming/agriculture, weed, military bases, weapons/technology companies, and a large population to tax...
How the Fu** do you mess all that up?
Well, we know how.
-Immigration out of hand...costly
-middle/working class taxes and general cost of living, which is forcing them to move out...costly
-bureaucratic/administrative spending out of hand...costly
-cradle to grave entitlements for non-contributing and poor class...costly
The government/administrative class is well taken care of. The rich elite class is taken care of. All the poor and non-contributing class are taken care of. The working middle class has to foot the bill.