Airports should be breaking even, such that the users are paying for all the costs, while maintaining it and providing for any needed renovation and expansion. The US tax payer should not be subsidizing your air travel.

Roads should be breaking even with the federal $0.18/gallon gas tax so that the users are paying for all the costs while maintaining and providing for needed repaving and any needed expansion. (That is breaking down with EVs, so we may need to go with some kind of road pass tracker that bills monthly for actual miles driven if you own an EV or annual based on verified mileage from your insurer, etc. They also probably need to update the mileage fees for semi and delivery trucks since they put a lot of wear and tear on the roads as well.)

The taxpayers already forked over for the initial construction, and forcing us all to subsidize maintenance is not something that the Federal government is efficient with.

There are 3 major Washington DC airports, so it seems like they could have reasonable competition...

Please cite which roads Trump is proposing to sell off, because I am not seeing it.

Very unlikely that Comcast (a subsidiary cable company) would or even could buy an airport.

Probably more like the JP Morgan Regan Airport, but why would you care if the facilities are in great shape, the taxpayers are no longer footing the bill for a net loss each year or on the hook for billions in renovation and modernization, and you only pay an extra $20 on your ticket and you get great customer service? That is a net positive all the way around, except, probably for the public sector unions.

Private industry does a great job as long as there is competition. It only sucks when, like the government, it has a monopoly (like Comcast).

AC hiding behind a BS post and probably sock puppet up mods BS because that has happened ZERO times in the last year, and Trump is only proposing to privatize infrastructure to facilitate massive amounts of infrastructure spending in a responsible way. Obama was the one that took the stimulus money and gave it to his supporters (for some reason, the Dims are always projecting their moral shortfalls on the conservatives), but it doesn't work because, unlike the Dims, we actually keep track of actual facts, not just emotions and virtue signalling.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...
https://www.ocregister.com/201...

At the end of the day, Obama PISSED AWAY $8,000,000,000,000 and got an average of 1% growth for 8 years because he was a corrupt Chicago politician giving everything away for politics. Trump is only spending $200B and he is leveraging that into $1.5T of infrastructure spending, which is massive and badly needed.

People need to stop listening to the Dims and the hysterical MSM and just look at what Trump is actually doing. The good news is that as the economy continues to roar along after it got out from under the Obama administration and now as everyone sees the infrastructure revitalized, it will be impossible for the MSM and Dims to lie about the current state of affairs with any credibility.

The only people I have seen tearing down historic icons are the alt left trying to rewrite actual historical fact in the southern states by tearing down monuments and statues of historical figures... Trump is proposing to privatize money losing infrastructure that is in bad need of repair and modernization.

As far as limited-development areas, we should be developing land to it's best use to the entire nation, not just the 5% eco-nut special interests because they are the most vocal and violent.

Except these buildings and projects are 30 plus years old on a 40-50y planned life, which the government has not been even doing the minimum maintenance on in many cases while continuously losing money.

There are no losses being socialized, rather Trump is using the private sector profit motivation: you know, the thing that lets you get good products like your smartphone and good customer service, at least where there is competition and where you have the right to sue if you have an unresolved issue (no, you can't sue the federal government in nearly all cases).

Private business is going to sink billions much more efficiently to renovate, modernize and run, and then the people who actually use those services are going to pay for it, not the entire US tax base, which is both fair and reasonable. At the end of the day we will get some money back to the US tax payer for infrastructure with less than 10 years remaining (before major renovations are required) and going forward the customers who use the facilities will pay for their maintenance and upkeep. Just like any other pay to use piece of property...

This will likely happen, as the Federal government especially is terribly inefficient and incompetent at maintaining and providing customer service. Ever been to the DMV?

What happens when airports get privatized? It will cost you a few more bucks to fly in and out of that airport, but they will get badly needed renovations of electrical, plumbing and structure that they need, and it will get done more quickly (assuming Trump also executes on chopping through all the red tape permitting BS that has accumulated over the last 40 years) and it will be paid for by the people that actually use it, rather than every taxpayer in the US.

Once all the Trump derangement syndrome sufferers calm the hell down (I know it's hard for the hard core left between the Dim politicians and the MSM lying their asses off every night saying Trump is Hitler and the Antichrist who rapes every woman who he meets), they will realize what the rest of us already have, that regardless of his personal wealth, Trump is at heart just a normal guy, not a politician and he is a populist.

He has been consistently trying to do what is best for the people, not special interests, which is what every other politician (R and D) has been doing for the last 60 years. Of course, history will be the judge, but all of the actions that Trump has taken domestically have been to limit government, enforce the laws on the books, and protect the American citizen workers. He has not re-implemented Jim Crowe or started incarcerating homosexuals etc. so take a breath.

We are now going to see what an infrastructure plan looks like from a businessman and a builder, rather than the "shovel ready" stimulus under community organizer Obama that was just a giveaway to his cronies and pet environmental special interests.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...
https://www.ocregister.com/201...

Yeah, as second in line to leader of the free world, being right in front of one of the top representatives of an insane murderous state would make me nervous as well.

N. Korea conducts assassinations in other country's airports using VX nerve agent. They blow up airliners. They literally starve their population.

They just recently tortured a college student to death.

I wouldn't be too happy in his place either.

Requoting the AC below, for your viewing pleasure:

Aaaand this is just highlighting why Facebook needs to be federally regulated. They have every right to fire a leaking employee, but I am pretty sure that how they figured it out is a violation of a number of laws. Even if they have access to said information for advertising purposes through the employees Facebook page, there is a whole different set of regulations as to what an employer can do to spy on an employee, especially on their days off...

It is high time the technocrats running Google, Facebook and Twitter go the hard slap down of federal regulation. They are just companies and they have been abusing their increasing power for far too long already.

It is explicitly stated frequently on the air. Furthermore grown ass adults can fairly easily differentiate between straight news reporting and commentating (with multiple guests debating issues, talking all around an issue including historical background, context and expected results and effects.

Can you tell the difference between the 10 o'clock news and 60 minutes?

I had to Google Alex Jones because I had never heard of him. It looks like he has about 400K devout followers and is the nut job straw man punching bag that the alt left trots out to confirm that all 180,000,000 conservatives in the US are crazies. (That's about 0.002% of conservatives) If you think there aren't nut job crazies on the left, I have news for you.

I'm sorry, but if you can't see the problem with that math, I can't help you.

Interesting premise, I've never heard of the story, and I"m a pretty avid consumer of Scifi literature.

That should change, at least to be updated with a list of countries whom we have found to be rigorous and accurate with their trials (probably most of Western Europe, Australia, etc.) and there should be an automatic investigation triggered in the US if ANY study found medicinal value in a naturally occurring substance. This is actually what people want their tax dollars funding...

The root problem though is this is not a drug, this is a plant. Phara companies arent interested in plants because they can't patent naturally occurring compounds. This plant could turn out to be a 100% safe and effective cure for opoid addiction, but without someone to do the research, the FDA has just shafted thousands of addicts.

This is obviously speculation, but it is a real problem with the FDA and why growing numbers of Americans are ready to see the agency gutted and totally re-organized with a mandate to improve the health, quality of life and life expectancy of Americans, rather than churning out approvals for dangerous drugs that bring in the ever critical FDA funding.