Nice ideas. But, How do we Pay for them?

For Institutional Infrastructure,

MA has a state annual budget of $60B. So, we have the money - we’ve just been spending it wrong.

For example, we already spend $15B+ on healthcare, $4.5B on elder care, $1B on childcare, and $1.5B for state college - we’re just spending it inefficiently by subsidizing broken, inefficient, price-gauged, profit-driven systems - and it wastes our money without giving us better systems.

So, to fund my proposals, we simply need to revise public spending as to stop subsidizing broken systems, and instead fully fund and build better publicly operated systems that better serve the taxpayers of MA and use our tax dollars more efficiently.

For physical Infrastructure,

Our federal government has the money - they just waste is on war and billionaire subsidies and bailouts.

So instead, as a state we should work with federal legislators and other states’ legislatures to direct billions of federal American tax dollars back into the states for large scale infrastructure projects, such as metro-rails, housing, and modernizing utilities.

If we can spend $10 Trillion on the military in the past 10 years, and increase the national debt by another $8T in the past two years - then we can longer accept the “we don’t have to money” excuse while the rich become richer and the middle-class turns into the working poor.

To fund projects like these, our federal government should fund the states $250 Billion annually for infrastructure and education.

This demand is easily possible - it’s just that our “leaders” fail to prioritize that necessary funding. To solve that problem, we should get rid off old-guard politicians and replace them with people willing to stop the wasteful spending and instead start the strategic investment in high opportunity states, such as MA, OH, PA, NC, and MI.