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Conservative approach to infrastructure


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Great article at National Review on how to actually do infrastructure investment:  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442843/infrastructure-trump-administration-conservatives?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily Trending Email Reoccurring- Monday to Thursday 2016-12-07&utm_term=NR5PM Actives

One of Donald Trump’s signature policy proposals has been a massive infrastructure investment plan. This puts conservatives in a bind. After all, didn’t we denounce the Obama administration’s stimulus plan as a massive boondoggle that didn’t do anything to boost the economy but wasted resources?
 
At the same time, we should recognize that there is ample conservative warrant for believing that the government should ensure that the United States has the world’s best infrastructure. Most free-market economists agree that infrastructure is one of the few worthwhile jobs that government can do. What’s more, as entrepreneur and Manhattan Institute fellow Jim Manzi pointed out in “The New American System,” in the Spring 2014 issue of National Affairs, government concern for infrastructure was actually a major booster of American prosperity in the 19th century, usually thought of as the halcyon days of small government. Such luminaries as Alexander Hamilton famously favored government public works, as did (less famously) Abraham Lincoln, who expanded Henry Clay’s agenda of investment in telegraphs and railroads. This communication and transportation network provided the backbone for America’s stunning late-19th-century growth, which made it the world’s richest nation well before it became a global power after World War I.
 
There is a good case that now is also a good time to spend on infrastructure. It’s not only that the economy could use the stimulus, which would probably be real if almost certainly lower than breathless Keynesian types would assume, or that interest rates on American debt are at all-time-lows, although those are factors. It’s that American infrastructure in key areas — such as transportation, the Internet, and energy — is subpar, and that quality infrastructure is a key asset in economic competition in a globalized economy.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442843/infrastructure-trump-administration-conservatives?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily Trending Email Reoccurring- Monday to Thursday 2016-12-07&utm_term=NR5PM Actives

 

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It's hard to be the greatest country in the free world when your bridges are crumbling and most of your internet is delivered through copper phone lines. Let's stop the waste and stop urban decay...I'm sure there's money in the budget for that somewhere.

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When your roads are full of potholes, bridges falling apart and you get your internet over phone lines put up in the 1940's, some people drinking lead contaminated water, you get kind of upset when your government spends your hard earned tax dollars improving another country's infrastructure.

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