CSPAN2 C-SPAN2 Weekend July 27, 2013
Go for productive uses, is seen as a tax increase and, therefore, hard to get support for. It also creates disaffection such as people believing the program is all about bridges to nowhere in alaska. Congress has created many Unfunded Mandates meaning it increases the costs states have to bear, and the model encourages states to Fund Projects out of annual revenues rather than financing them over the long term as all investorowned infrastructure does, electric utilities, railroads, toll roads and so forth. The thrust of my written testimony is it really is time to rethink the federal governmen...