Dallas County residents—-Vote NO!!
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With the increase in immigration and the increase of poverty in our country, we need to start building more courthouses, jails and prisons. This needed to start yesterday. It will cost all of us taxpayers more money. It’s an unfortunate problem we have to deal with.
Except....immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than American citizens do.
Which means, the more immigrants we get, the fewer prisons per-capita we'll need...
Build an over glorified Morton building out in the country for the criminals. Far cheaper. Plenty of room for expansion if crime/criminals increases.
Build something smaller and nice near town for non criminal courthouse needs.
Build something smaller and nice near town for non criminal courthouse needs.
i get that knowing everything is your thing...but i promise you i understand this
yes...of course there are lots of projects that could be started with more infrastructure money...every state, county, and MPO has a large list of just bridge projects (and that's just one - the simplest - of many categories) that they know they could get into design and engineering the second more funding becomes available. that was true in 2015 after the fast act was passed, that was true in 2020 when the fast act was extended, that is true today with the IIJA in effect. it will never not be true.
we fund transportation infrastructure with surface transportation funding bills. the current one is the IIJA. the previous one was the fast act. the fast act expired just as trump's first term ended and it was extended for a year.
again- if you want to criticize trump because he didn't fulfill a campaign promise to pass a new infrastructure bill...fine. but even trump's history shows that he will sign a bill to fund transportation improvements when he has to...because he did in his first term
It does not appear that you do "understand this".
Thousands of infrastructure projects were "on hold" until Biden got a major bill passed.
Trump passed no such bill.
None of those infrastructure projects were initiated under Trump's watch, or from anything he championed to push thru Congress.
do you really think that no transportation project "were initiated under trump's watch"? transportation projects that take years of design and engineering and environmental review to just get to construction? if that was true...how would there have been projects in construction in 2021 and 2022? do you think the (literally) thousands of engineers at DOTs and planners at MPOs across the country were just not doing anything for 4 years?
its ok to not understand this...transportation planning is extremely convoluted system...but you can look up what is called the TIP (transportation improvement program) for any MPO (metropolitan planning organization) or state (sometimes referred to as a "STIP"). they are typically done in 4 year chunks, updated every 2 years. they contain all the federally funded transportation projects for that geographic area. this process was just completed as the new TIP took effect Oct 1 (the start of the federal fiscal year)
i promise you this process occurred before, during, and after trump's term
So expect your state’s Clerk of Court Association (ie. lobbyists) to secure legislation authorizing an increase in filing fees. East Baton Rouge Parish built a 14 story court building. Legislature authorized COCs to increase their fees. Filing fees went up statewide.
That is not what I wrote.
There were thousands of unfunded projects waiting for funding. Trump and the GOP did not deliver that funding.
Yet, they all wanted to take credit for it after Biden and Democrats got it passed.
what were these thousands of unfunded projects? do you mean things listed on LRTPs (long range transportation plans)?
because that's still the case...needs still far outpace available funding - THAT WILL ALWAYS BE THE CASE
the IIJA was a huge help to state DOTs and MPOs and the biden-harris admin should absolutely get credit for that
but to pretend that infrastructure funding was ever in danger or was fundamentally inadequate because of the trump admin is false or disingenuous (especially if you consider that they simply extended the funding levels that were set by the obama admin)
The criminal courtrooms are what they are proposing to build. Which I do not use hence my original post.
