Fair enough, but that’s what they told us to sell the ‘stimulus’ package. Sure, it was a Dem/union slush fund, but they still made the same argument to sell it.
When you don’t have a highway system, building a highway system is a great investment. When you do have a highway system and tax everyone to the hilt do maintain it and then throw a bunch more money to build bridges that nobody wants or rebuild bike paths that nobody uses, you’re not ‘investing’ in anything. You’re just throwing money away.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of useful ‘investments’ for the government to make in infrastructure. Unless you’re talking a government sponsored project to build thorium reactors or something like that. THAT would be a real investment.
Our infrastructure,in the traditional sense,is in need of a serious upgrade.
Infrastructure all over North America is aging and it's going to cost municipalities billions of dollars. A couple of years ago, there was a highway overpass in Montreal that collapsed, instantly killing a couple, orphaning their children. And wasn't there a bridge in Minnesota or some other northern state that collapsed a while back?