Political Quotes

“I thank Mr. Jeffries very much for his remarks. If he can stick around, maybe we can have a colloquy here and discuss this a little better. Mr. Jeffries and his two colleagues, the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline) and the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Bustos), developed the Better Deal discussion, and I would like to talk about this in the context of infrastructure. Now, in the next couple of weeks, the President says he is going to deliver to the Congress his infrastructure plan. Well, we know across this Nation that we definitely need infrastructure. He just talked about it a moment ago. And the question will arise: How do you pay for it? This year, right now, the current fiscal year where we are talking about ``can we fund government before it shuts down,'' $150 billion was ripped out of the Treasury. It is gone for the wealthy tax cuts. So where do we get the money to pay for infrastructure? How do we do that? Here is my fear. My fear is that the wealthy 1 percent, top 10 percent, the big corporations have already got their big chunk of the pie, 83 percent of it. Where do you go to get the money? I think that the proposal coming from the President will be to tax fees on folks who are using the transportation system. And who are they? They are the American families. They are the people commuting to work on the trains or in the buses or in the cars.…”