No.. what is absurd is the notion that you tax higher as a way to prosperity... and that you spend your way out of debt
Who said anything about "taxing higher"? I'm talking about curtailing the corporate gravy train that's been eating this country alive since the 80's. I'm talking about punishing businesses who go the slave labor route and rewarding businesses who keep or bring jobs back to America. I'm talking about giving even better breaks to businesses who pay their employees a proper, living wage and punishing businesses who can afford to, but don't.
Spending your way out of debt? It's quite possible to do just that....our infrastructure is crumbling around us....bridges, dams, roads, water and sewage systems, our electrical grid that LOSES 60%(IIRC) of the power we generate. Those public works projects also provide work for private industry to manufacture the materials needed, private local businesses like restaurants, hotels and shopping....
All of that creates business....which increases the tax base....employs people. which increases the tax base.....and improves our country's ability to be more efficient and better compete in a global market....which makes businesses more money and cost less to move goods and provide services.
Instead of investing in a continual war that only serves to keep the weapons and munitions manufacturers flush with cash, let's invest in ourselves. Hell, if it makes you happy....I'm all for welfare recipients working in menial positions on these projects in exchange for their benefits.
The government is not to reward or punish business.. government is to ensure the freedom for business to run while regulating interstate commerce
It is NOT possible to spend your way out of debt... this is absolute rubbish
you and your ilk have tried with increases to regulation and increases to people getting assistance.. and what it has led to is more governmental dependence and less people in the income tax base... all the while you continue to increase taxation on those who earn more and whom you vilify to support your big government schemes
1. When business....excuse me, let me clarify that....When huge Domestic and huge multinational Conglomerates, who have the power to influence our government to benefit them at the expense of small businesses and the workforce....AND to the detriment of our economy and our country as a whole? You're damned right government has a role....Teddy Roosevelt had it right when he busted up monopolies and championed an anti-trust agenda.
The corporations back in his day were tiny compared to the huge entities we have today....they have their hands in everything. They can afford to undercut any competition for any given product or service because they can make up the difference with all the other shit they're involved in.
2. You're flat out wrong. Public Works projects not only put contractors to work, they put all the peripheral businesses to work too....the people who manufacture the materials for the project, the logistics to get the materials to the work site...the mom and pops that feed the workers, the hotels that keep a roof over the worker's heads during the workweek, repair shops, shopping centers....hell, there's probably tens of other things that I'm not thinking of.
All of those things that I mentioned employ people. Employment means expendable income for the workers...bigger profits for the businesses, and more tax revenue all around for government to pay down the debt.
That's just the short term. Imagine if you will....an electrical grid that is even 75% efficient and only 25% gets wasted in transmission, rather than the 40% that we have now. Less power generated, less materials(Coal, Oil, fuel rods) needed to meet our power needs, higher profits for the power companies and lower cost to the consumer. If the power companies even splits the savings with the consumer, that's a solid windfall for both.....for a long time.
Better roads and better planned highways mean faster shipments at a lesser cost....then there's the concept of public safety...Our bridges are still atrocious, our water and sewage treatment systems are to a large degree, on the verge of failure. Our dams haven't been maintained, most not even INSPECTED in decades due to a lack of proper staffing. Our levees are a tragedy waiting to happen...Sure, New Orleans got a lot of attention after Katrina, but there are literally thousands of communities that hold their collective breaths after a few days if heavy rain.
The reason that these things have just been ignored? People like you saying we don't have the money to do it, but can't see beyond your nose to think that all those "social" programs that you hate so much wouldn't be NEARLY as strained if we put those people to work on projects such as this. This was FDR'S vision when he put the welfare system in.....it wasn't "gubmint" money for doing nothing.....it was investing in our people and investing in our country. He used programs like the CCC and the WPA for those projects.
I mean, there's always going to be people who CAN'T work....the folks I work with, for example(the severely developmentally disabled). But I'm of the opinion that those who are able should be forced to, if they want their benefits.
I know....you're going to claim bullshit....which is your right....but it's not.
There has been some ( little ) good debate here which I appreciate - I have read every word. However, partisian impetus has forced the thread consistently off topic. 
