The fallacy of 'crumbling' American infrastructure
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Feb 14, 2018
3 minutes
It's Infrastructure Week (again), and who among us can contain his excitement?
The president, for one.
According to reports, President Trump wanted to announce the biggest investment in public works since President Eisenhower unveiled the interstate highway system. But in the wake of tax cuts, the real deficit was too big to close what Trump calls "the infrastructure deficit." So he had to settle for a plan that would spend
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