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Public investment in infrastructure is clearly something we should be doing, both for long-term growth and as a bit of insurance against the next recession. But this op-ed strikes me as painfully naive 1/ nytimes.com/2019/02/04/opi…
The reason we don't even have a hint of an infrastructure plan, two years into Trump, is that Republicans in Congress don't want it -- in part because it would mean accepting that government can do good 2/ nytimes.com/2019/02/01/opi…
For the matter, Trump is constitutionally (or unconstitutionally) incapable of proposing a clean infrastructure plan; he can't conceive of one that isn't stealth privatization and a new arena for cronyism 3/ nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opi…
So writing earnestly about the case for infrastructure is whistling in the wind. Nothing will happen as long as we have a Republican administration and Senate 4/
