2/2: Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

#Bestof2021: 2/2:  Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good?  @RichardAEpstein  @HooverInst   
https://www.hoover.org/research/infrastructure-distortions


The impending multibillion-dollar infrastructure deal between the Biden administration and the Senate Republicans has been hailed as welcome bipartisan cooperation that augurs well for the revitalization of this nation’s aging infrastructure—and for improving the lives of many Americans. This narrative plays so well because the term “infrastructure” now carries a seal of approval. Private expenditures may be suspect as greedy, but not public expenditures.

1850 Rome