Ed Rendell: “Not only do I think it is a Federal role, but if I was drafting and crafting the infrastructure bank legislation, that…”

we can afford $185 billion annual increase in infrastructure investment because of the economic and societal benefits to us.

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

the long-run answer to all of our problems in my judgment is there should be a Federal capital budget.

We need to raise the gas tax. We need to adjust it for inflation on a yearly basis.