By Bill Decker, Editor
The Daily Review
The biggest argument over infrastructure is over what infrastructure is.
President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion, eight-year plan, which relies mainly on increases in corporate taxes, pushes the boundaries to include job training, high-tech and medical manufacturing, care for the disabled and elderly, and the pipes that carry water into your home. Republicans hope to fight off the tax hikes and limit spending to a more traditional definition that includes highways, bridges, ports and airports.
If we look with the narrower view, one thing is clear: Tens of millions of dollars have been pouring into St. Mary Parish for infrastructure work. Equally clear is that tens of millions of work remain to be funded and carried out.
Start with one aspect of infrastructure that attracts more attention here than elsewhere in the country: drainage and flood control.