By Conrad Black, Special to the Sun| April 1, 2021
President Biden’s infrastructure bill is a shopping cart full of left-wing causes, most of which have nothing to do with infrastructure. There is nothing in principle particularly wrong with omnibus bills covering a number of different policy objectives, but such misnomers as this proposal and the preceding Covid relief bill, 90% of which had nothing to do with the coronavirus, are irritating and insulting to the intelligence of the public.
The president is absolutely right to wish to address inadequate roads and bridges and railways and other notorious shortcomings of the country's basic services, and he is right to address the hydroelectric system in Texas, which failed so badly in the recent storms. This is one of the few areas, along with healthcare, where President Trump had promised action and failed to deliver it, and President Biden does deserve credit for moving to address these problems.
However, there are two particularly serious failings in the measure that he revealed in Pittsburgh on Wednesday afternoon. It is the largest peacetime tax increase in American history and it attempts to attach to infrastructure improvement climatological and environmental goals that have nothing to do with the purported subject to the legislation and are in themselves substantially spurious.........To Read More....
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