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How to pay for infrastructure

How to pay for infrastructure

Borrowed money is great — but is the infrastructure a good idea at all?

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Mar 15, 2021
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Back in January, when the Biden economic team originally outlined its American Rescue Plan, they also said that they anticipated rolling out a second plan — which at the time, they dubbed “recovery” — which would be more focused on infrastructure.

What they said was that they expected that second plan to be ready in time for Biden to addre…

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