“Discussing infrastructure nationally obscures the issue. Our infrastructure issues are sporadic, but are much worse in some states than others. “
Very true, sometimes crossing a state line is eye opening. The road immediately looks crappy or twice as good.
and that’s part of the problem, because of state-to-state differences in priority allocations, liberals take this as a sign that federal intervention is needed. In fact what is needed is dismantling of the federal bureaucracy, de-regulation, and returning more authority and money to the states who know their local needs best. In the absence of such meddling, if one state has a superior infrastructure that encourages growth and development, other states will notice and act to close the gap. But when the feds are involved, limited resources are peanut-buttered across all areas without regard to local needs. If you’ve ever had any involvement with a project and been told “we can’t do anything about it, that’s determined by federal standards” you will know what I mean.