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There's little money to be made in fixing leaky water pipes and filling potholes. several economists have pointed out that with interest rates so low, this is the ideal time to borrow money to invest in something that has large and tangible payoffs, less traffic, shorter commutes, greater productivity throughout the economy. writing for the bond buyer, two pundits suggested tax issue make america great again bonds, great idea, plus congress should raise the federal gas tax, one of the main funding sources for infrastructure repairs. that has remained unchanged since 1993, which when taking inf...

Several economists have pointed out that with interest rates so low, this is the ideal time to borrow money to invest in something that has large and tangible payoffs, less traffic, shorter commutes, greater productivity throughout the economy. writing for the bond buyer, two pundies suggested that trump issue tax exempt make america great again bonds, great idea. plus, congress should raise the federal gas tax, one of the main funding sources for infrastructure repairs. that tax has remained unchanged at 18.4 cents since 1993, which when taking inflation into account, means it buys 40% less t...

Loss of our troops during these wars, no enemy in the field have done more to harm the combat readiness of our military than sequestration. >> mattis is asking congress to pass the president's 28 teen spending request, $639 billion on time to allow the military to appropriately plan. move over melania trump looks like barron the fashion expert. selling out in less than a day. he was wearing j. crew shirt when he and first lady officially moved into the white house. do you think that was intentionally. that was fashion thing or shirt he put on and caught like wildfire? steve: the next thing i...

Long-term care. >> look, i agree with that, but the rhetoric here has gotten over the top. it makes about as much sense to accuse republicans of wanting people to die as it did of accusing democrats of running death panels. the rhetoric gets in the way of trying to get to the problem in an efficient way and hopefully we can get past th. >> i appreciate you trying to get past that. the senate working group i was talking about, we are talking about medicate. we don't have a new score for the bill which is a troubling matter on its. based on the old bill, the cvo estimated it would cut $839 billi...

Health versions of the bill. third version have not scored yet. voted without score. members are not going to change that much. basically what you can see most importantly is they are cutting $839 billion from medicaid. that is a lot of money to cut. then still say people are going to get health care. are they cutting it completely or sending it to the states or is that just pure cut. >> cutting. cutting. >> they say they're not cutting. >> what they are saying is that because medicare expenses are projected to go up a lot. medicaid, rather. because of more older people. more sick people. thei...