01-31-2018, 11:21 PM
(01-31-2018, 05:25 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Depends on whose analysis you look at. $200 billion seems a bit low out of that figure; I wouldn't be surprised to see a 2:1 split government to private sector. I can't remember what the final outcome was with the tax bill, but I know some versions would have crippled state and local spending on infrastructure in an effort to encourage private investment. But I can't remember off the top of my head what ended up being in the final version. I was too focused on the higher education implications.
Edit: Since writing this, I think I found where your number came from. The administration, based on leaked infrastructure plans, is looking to lower the expected federal share of infrastructure work from 50%, as it has been for decades, to 20%. So a $1 trillion infrastructure push would be $200 billion. It has members of both parties uneasy, though, so this won't likely be the final result.
I thought I remembered that number. What I understood was democrats wanted and 80/20 split gov/private. But trump is basically flipping it. The conservative approach. From what I understand it makes the dems and progressive GOP uneasy. Probably because they both love to spend like teenage girls with a credit card.
Jennifer Grantholm mentored ib CNN that it was privatizing infrastructure projects. Honestly I can’t see a bad thing with this proposal. Probably see more toll roads but we already have them.