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Lets Talk About Pete Buttigieg’s Big Infrastructure Idea.
The transportation Secretary pitched his idea to the American people, and it’s not good.
Of all the candidates Biden could have picked as his Transportation Secretary, for the life of me I will never understand why he chose former South Bend Mayor and Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg. Of course, positions like this do oftentimes go to someone who the party machine will want to elevate. Desperate to fend off the left wing of the party for as long as possible, it makes perfect sense that Joe Biden would want to chose someone who the Democratic elite envision as the future they would prefer for the party. It’s also worth noting the irrefutable fact that Pete Buttigieg and Barack Obama coordinated after his exit from the primary race in an effort to sink Bernie Sanders and elevate Joe Biden. Naturally, they would find something for him.
That said, the idea of Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary has definitely raised eyebrows considering he has little to no experience that would make this position suitable for him, and his big, bold idea for tackling the problem of America’s outdated and crumbling infrastructure has only made that even more clear.
During a recent interview where Secretary Buttigieg intended to pitch his idea to the American people, he said that he feels a mileage tax shows “a…
