The trillion dollar infrastructure boondoggle will cost much more, and deliver even less
Democrats hoping to avoid a wipeout in the 2022 elections are busy touting the many supposed benefits and virtues of their trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. But as anyone who has followed…
The tariffs and other government distortions embedded in the Biden infrastructure package
The Biden administration’s infrastructure bill is supposed to bring new roads, bridges, fiber optic cable, and much more to a nation supposedly starved for all of it. But as we…
Democrats discover being anti-Trump, and nothing else, is a losing strategy
Democrats are still sorting through the results of the 2021 elections, looking for reasons why the party lost so much ground in a blue-trending state like Virginia, and how to…
How to waste hundreds of billions of dollars, the Biden way
The president is busy touring the country trying to sell the public on the recently-approved infrastructure bill…the measure he hopes will blunt what could be a GOP wave in the…
The hidebound and costly thinking on infrastructure
There are any number of reasons to push back against the Biden administration’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal, and the remnant that still thinks Washington spends too much money for a…
Problem Solvers Need to Look Beyond Biden, to a More Dynamic Transportation Future
“Bipartisanship” is a word that still gets tossed around in official Washington. It doesn’t mean much beyond being lip service to an old political order that went extinct decades ago….
Beware of Politicians Talking About ‘Crumbling’ Infrastructure
The political class has a way with words, but often in ways that are detrimental to good public policy. Consider the word “crumbling.” It’s a great word, evoking ruin, decay,…
About Those 19 Million New Jobs…
It’s traditional for politicians to say their big new legislative proposal will create lots of high-paying new jobs. It’s no different with Mr. Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal. Team Biden…
Biden’s Infrastructure Numbers Might Work if Government Cuts Waste
The Biden administration’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan is supposed to generate enough economic benefit to the country to easily overcome any economic harm a tax hike or corporations/the wealthy/and others…
The Corporate Welfare at the Heart of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
A key component of the Biden administration’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal is a plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on specific U.S. industries to enhance their global competitiveness….