Wanted: A more reasonable debate on infrastructure (Martin Neil Baily, Brookings)

This election year, we are once again having a political debate with presidential nominees who are not incumbents; neither has a presidential track record to defend. But this time around there are three important economic issues over which there is some surprising bipartisan agreement: the need to rebuild America’s infrastructure; tax reform for a more efficient and fairer tax code; and reducing budget deficits over the long run. These are important economic issues, and they are worthy of reasoned debate.

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