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 governments policy. I think there are three key points for doing so. Sort out which functions are truly federal, refocus the federal government on that and delegate the rest to state and local governments where the need really is. Second, shift from funding to financing which means federal policy needs to begin shifting much more from grants to loans on a basis, preferably, that does not put federal taxpay
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