When creepy Joe signs the so called "infrastructure" bill today, rest assured every penny will be used to rebuild the nation's decaying infrastructure. 
Here's a look at some of the more important aspects of "infrastructure" the bill will address
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Also just FYI...here's are some of the more novel ways it's going to be paid for while adding hundreds of billions to our annual operating deficits over the next five years.
Revenue provisions (tax)
The bill [PDF 3.11 MB] (2,740 pages) includes tax law changes as well other budgetary offsets.
link to full pdf
Division H of the bill includes revenue provisions that are estimated by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to raise approximately $51 billion over 10 years on a net basis. Read the JCT revenue estimate—JCX-33-21.
The revenue provisions in Division H include the following:
Revenue raisers
Requiring information reporting with respect to digital assets such as cryptocurrency, generally effective for returns and statements required to be filed or furnished after December 31, 2023 [estimated to raise approximately $28 billion over a 10-year period]
Extending certain Superfund excise taxes through December 31, 2031, and modifying the amount of tax applicable to certain chemicals, generally effective as of July 1, 2022 [estimated to raise approximately $14.45 billion over a 10-year period]
Terminating the employee retention credit earlier than scheduled by making it applicable to wages paid before October 1, 2021 (rather than wages paid before January 1, 2022) [estimated to raise approximately $8.2 billion over a 10-year period]
Modifying the section 430(h)(2)(C)(iv) table of applicable minimum and maximum percentages with respect to certain pension plans (i.e., “pension smoothing”) [estimated to raise approximately $2.9 billion over a 10-year period]
Revenue losers
Expanding the definition of exempt facility bonds to include certain qualified broadband projects and qualified carbon dioxide capture facilities; providing a partial exemption to the private activity bond volume cap for exempt facility bonds relating to such projects and facilities; and increasing the national limitation amount for qualified highway or surface freight transportation facilities [estimated to lose approximately $1.2 billion over a 10-year period]
Modifying the Code section 118 contribution-to-capital rules to apply to certain amounts received by regulated public utilities for water or sewerage disposal services [estimated to lose approximately $1.25 billion over a 10-year period]
Scored as having no revenue effect
Extending various highway-related excise taxes (including fuel taxes and heavy vehicle use taxes) as well as certain related exemptions for six years
Extending the authority to spend out of the highway trust fund, the sport fish restoration and boating trust fund, and the leaking underground storage tank trust fund until October 1, 2026
Modifying the automatic extension of certain deadlines in the case of taxpayers affected by federally declared disasters
Providing the Treasury Secretary with authority to postpone certain deadlines in the case of certain “significant fires”
Tolling of time for filing a petition with the U.S. Tax Court in certain cases in which a filing location is inaccessible or otherwise unavailable on the date the petition would otherwise be due
Modifying the rules for postponing certain acts due to service in a combat zone or contingency operation
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link to full pdf on tax provisions
Here's a look at some of the more important aspects of "infrastructure" the bill will address
link to full article
excerpt:
1. $10 Billion to Create a ‘Civilian Climate Corp’
The Biden administration proposes spending $10 billion to create a “Civilian Climate Corp.” The White House claims that “This $10 billion investment will put a new, diverse generation of Americans to work conserving our public lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, and advancing environmental justice through a new Civilian Climate Corps.”
2. $20 Billion to ‘Advance Racial Equity and Environmental Justice’
The proposal sets aside a whopping $20 billion—more than the latest COVID package spent on vaccines—for “a new program that will reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic investments and ensure new projects increase opportunity, advance racial equity and environmental justice, and promote affordable access.”
5. $100 Billion for New Public Schools and Making School Lunches ‘Greener’
You might remember that the last “COVID” legislation had $128.5 billion in taxpayer dole-outs for public schools; much of the money will be spent years after the pandemic and there was no requirement that schools actually open. Yet this was, evidently, just the beginning. The Biden “infrastructure” plan includes another “$100 billion to upgrade and build new public schools.”
(click the link above for more "insanity")“Funds also will be provided to improve our school kitchens, so they can be used to better prepare nutritious meals for our students and go green by reducing or eliminating the use of paper plates and other disposable materials,” the proposal reads.
Also just FYI...here's are some of the more novel ways it's going to be paid for while adding hundreds of billions to our annual operating deficits over the next five years.
Revenue provisions (tax)
The bill [PDF 3.11 MB] (2,740 pages) includes tax law changes as well other budgetary offsets.
link to full pdf
Division H of the bill includes revenue provisions that are estimated by the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to raise approximately $51 billion over 10 years on a net basis. Read the JCT revenue estimate—JCX-33-21.
The revenue provisions in Division H include the following:
Revenue raisers
Requiring information reporting with respect to digital assets such as cryptocurrency, generally effective for returns and statements required to be filed or furnished after December 31, 2023 [estimated to raise approximately $28 billion over a 10-year period]
Extending certain Superfund excise taxes through December 31, 2031, and modifying the amount of tax applicable to certain chemicals, generally effective as of July 1, 2022 [estimated to raise approximately $14.45 billion over a 10-year period]
Terminating the employee retention credit earlier than scheduled by making it applicable to wages paid before October 1, 2021 (rather than wages paid before January 1, 2022) [estimated to raise approximately $8.2 billion over a 10-year period]
Modifying the section 430(h)(2)(C)(iv) table of applicable minimum and maximum percentages with respect to certain pension plans (i.e., “pension smoothing”) [estimated to raise approximately $2.9 billion over a 10-year period]
Revenue losers
Expanding the definition of exempt facility bonds to include certain qualified broadband projects and qualified carbon dioxide capture facilities; providing a partial exemption to the private activity bond volume cap for exempt facility bonds relating to such projects and facilities; and increasing the national limitation amount for qualified highway or surface freight transportation facilities [estimated to lose approximately $1.2 billion over a 10-year period]
Modifying the Code section 118 contribution-to-capital rules to apply to certain amounts received by regulated public utilities for water or sewerage disposal services [estimated to lose approximately $1.25 billion over a 10-year period]
Scored as having no revenue effect
Extending various highway-related excise taxes (including fuel taxes and heavy vehicle use taxes) as well as certain related exemptions for six years
Extending the authority to spend out of the highway trust fund, the sport fish restoration and boating trust fund, and the leaking underground storage tank trust fund until October 1, 2026
Modifying the automatic extension of certain deadlines in the case of taxpayers affected by federally declared disasters
Providing the Treasury Secretary with authority to postpone certain deadlines in the case of certain “significant fires”
Tolling of time for filing a petition with the U.S. Tax Court in certain cases in which a filing location is inaccessible or otherwise unavailable on the date the petition would otherwise be due
Modifying the rules for postponing certain acts due to service in a combat zone or contingency operation
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link to full pdf on tax provisions
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