The absolute dumbest thing about not spending on infrastructure is that it has colossal potential to invigorate any local economy. Huge amounts of labor and materials needed. And usually you're not shipping massive amounts of aggregate across country, it's from nearby quarries. And you're definitely not watching the money disappear overseas.
Plus doesn't infrastructure spending normally result in higher returns than it costs?
> A recent Business Roundtable study found that $737 billion in public investment over 10 years would set us on the path toward reviving our national infrastructure. While those numbers seem daunting, the report also showed that every additional dollar invested in infrastructure delivers roughly $3.70 in additional economic growth over a period of 20 years.
Yeah. So I forget macroeconomics class from a long time ago. But there's some effect where a dollar changing hands in a local economy 3 or 4 times has a huge multiplicative effect on economic growth.
And being labour and trade intensive means you can campaign on creating jobs for your blue collared workers.
