An infrastructure bill is coming in 2018. Please, Republicans, get this right.
Let's start with three premises: Each citizen needs, pays for and benefits from public infrastructure, so all 3,000-plus counties — the ubiquitous unit of American government — should get a per-capita allocation of infrastructure funding.
The second premise is that decisions on where money gets spent shouldn't reside with the federal government alone but at all the levels of citizenship — local, state and national.
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