If an idea is beneficial and workable, there will be local support for it. The federal government doesn’t need to redistribute tax revenues (which will surely be done on a political basis) to promote development, it just needs to get out of the way. The states will find a better way to get the job done. But unfortunately, politicians only want to spend other people's money to enhance their own careers and power.
New roads and bridges are needed in some places and, more important, existing roads need to be maintained, repaired and upgraded.
Re my point above, what happened to all the stimulus money? Wasn’t that supposed to go to upgrading our national infrastructure? The truth about that is that nobody knows where it all went. The only thing we can be sure of is that it was “re-distributed”.
———what happened to all the stimulus money? -——
Money is fungible. When thrown in the pot stimulus money can’t be distinguished from ordinary money.
Tennessee has a very good policy for mantaining Interstate hiway surfaces. The DOT has a rotational resurfacing program about every five years for sections ten or twelve miles long. The stimulus money was thrown into the pot for regular maintenance and for about a year the resurfaced segment had the stimulus sign. The signs are all gone now.
There are many rural counties in many states who would have no interest/benefit from building and maintaining ~36 miles of interstate.