Reaction to Joe Biden's "Hey, let's spend $53 billion on high-speed rail" contribution to the latest "boondoggle in the name of Progress":
Why not? The federal budget is now like a teetering Jenga tower that stretches into the Earth's upper atmosphere. There's no question that it's going to topple pretty soon, so in the meantime, why not have fun and see how many more pieces we can stick on there before it does?
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Theoretically, there has to come a point where the budget grows so bloated that even leftists agree that pursuing risky new projects is imprudent for the time being, until we retrench fiscally and reprioritize. And yet, evidently, we haven't yet reached that point. Where is that point, exactly?
I use to wonder about that, too. But I don't think there is a "stop spending" point for them.
