Americans pay a lot into public infrastructure, but we just get much less for our dollar. (An insane 10x less when talking about urban rail.)
I don't think the American voter is what is broken here. People still believe in infrastructure projects. It's the public sector that has shown they can't be trusted to complete any worthwhile project for a reasonable amount of resources.
The quintessential example of this is urban rail, which is ridiculously expensive in America:
I don't think the American voter is what is broken here. People still believe in infrastructure projects. It's the public sector that has shown they can't be trusted to complete any worthwhile project for a reasonable amount of resources.
The quintessential example of this is urban rail, which is ridiculously expensive in America:
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/05/16/us-rail-constr...