Joe Biden said during his State of the Union address that Republicans want Social Security and Medicare to sunset. House and Senate Republican leaders say they don’t support this, but at least one senator — Rick Scott — has broadly floated the idea.
by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy concluded that at least 55 large companies paid zero federal income taxes in 2020. Critics say that the financial disclosures used to compile the report are imperfect estimates of what the companies actually paid in taxes, since the accounting rules are different for the two types of filings.
"In the 10 years the ban was law, mass shootings went down. After we let it expire under a Republican administration, mass shootings tripled.". Studies that examined mass shooting deaths found that deaths fell during the 10 years the ban was in place, from 1994 to 2004, and rose dramatically when the ban expired.Compared with the decade before the ban, there was a
However, experts say it is difficult to determine whether the ban drove the decline in mass shooting deaths."We came together to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the largest investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System."in funding to repair roads and bridges and support major projects, like a bridge connecting Kentucky and Ohio and a tunnel between New York and New Jersey.
Biden is correct if you take the last big infrastructure push in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which providedBut the 2009 money came on top of funds that started flowing in 2005. When Adie Tomer, a researcher at the Brookings Institution think tank, ran the numbers, he found that as a percentage of GDP, total spending on roads and bridges reached 0.3% in 2010. The estimate for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as a percentage of GDP is projected to reach a high of 0.
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