Why Are We Debating What Infrastructure Is?
President Biden's 2 trillion dollar American Jobs Plan has certainly been talked about an insane amount. Nearly all of the provisions included in this proposed bill are overwhelmingly popular with the American people. However, since it is frequently being referred to as an "infrastructure" bill, which certainly seems like it makes sense with a broad definition of what infrastructure means, there has been a ton of unnecessary debate about it. My question is, why were these ideas pitched this way in the first place? How did these communications people not understand that they would be opening up the door for the other side to attack the bill through arguments like this and this ? Why is anyone from the democrats even engaging these questions in the first place? This whole saga of the bill has been maddening. Who cares if certain provisions are infrastructure or not? Instead, there should be more focus and discussion of ...
