Ed Rendell: “You don't bargain with the presidential nominee. Even if you're Hillary Clinton and you have 18 million votes, you don't…”

You all know the impact of infrastructure spending. DOT and other experts estimate that for every billion dollars of infrastructure spending, 25,000 well-paying jobs are created.

It is that the Federal Government is actually an anchor around our necks, and that even when there are no Federal dollars involved they are a burden.

The public never heard about those. And the whole earmark process poisoned the well for transportation funding.

Raising taxes: less than $100. Cost of inaction: $818.