El Wall Street Journal destaca algunas de las partidas de gasto del "estímulo económico" destinado a sacar a Estados Unidos de la crisis. Para que luego digan que son los liberales los que aplican la doctrina del shock (aprovechando las crisis para implementar medidas liberales). Como dice el WSJ, este paquete "estimulante" es una amalgama de todas las propuestas intervencionistas defendidas por los Demócratas en los últimos 40 años.
The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic "stimulus," but now that Democrats have finally released the details we understand Rahm's point much better. This is a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years.
We've looked it over, and even we can't quite believe it. There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There's even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons. (...)
Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus.
