What does a government have to do to give away free money these days?
Two years after Presidentish Joe Biden put his signature on the trillion-dollar Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — you remember, the one that spends about nine cents on the dollar on actual infrastructure — there are billions in electric vehicle charging station money that nobody seems to want.
And Republicans, showing some rare backbone, are trying to cut some spending — but I’ll get to that momentarily.
At Biden’s insistence, the law set aside $7.5 billion to finance “tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change,” as Politico put it on Tuesday. Politico’s corporate bylaws prevent the site from publishing a story that doesn’t include at least one mention of the world being about to end.
Politico also notes that all those chargers are “essential to reaching President Joe Biden’s goal of having half the vehicles sold in the United States be electric by the end of the decade — a key cog of his climate agenda.”
His agenda. Your tax dollars.
But thanks to “the labyrinth of new contracting…
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