We (the USA) have an economy based around taxing the 99% and cutting societal benefits, not limited to just infrastructure. Wall Street doesn't see profits to be made by funding large public sector interstate projects, and they (along with corporate monopolies in tech and pharma, big oil, insurance and real estate) choose our policy and forego anything that would help stimulate production outside of debt collection/rent collection/patent trolling and stock inflation via buy backs.The fact is these sectors don't want to stimulate economic growth, they want to suppress wages, suppress the growth of future competitors and continue collecting massive amounts of unearned income via debt/rents/patent trolling/etc...
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