How reducing red tape improves infrastructure

The Trump administration’s new infrastructure proposal hopes $200 billion in new federal spending could spur $1.5 trillion in total infrastructure investment, but the plan’s streamlining and reducing of burdensome regulations may be the more important short-term policy.
A frequently-used data point in infrastructure debates is that America’s cumulative infrastructure grade was a D+ on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017 infrastructure report card. One of the les