It's a fact.
A Fact might be "We Build, You Tax".
Feel free to post the GOP plan for comprehensive infrastructure repair.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul offered President Barack Obama an alternative plan Thursday for making needed repairs to the nation's infrastructure, including replacing aging bridges like those along Kentucky's northern border.
Paul flew with Obama aboard Air Force One on Thursday afternoon to Cincinnati where the president focused attention on the aging Brent Spence bridge across the Ohio River and promoted his $447 billion jobs plan that includes money to repair bridges, highways and other infrastructure.
Obama's plan has received a cool reception from Republican leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky whose states are connected by the double-decker Brent Spence Bridge that opened in 1963.
Paul said that's why he wanted to offer Obama his alternative proposal to prioritize road and bridge projects and to pay for them with an emergency bridge fund that would use money previously set aside for projects that Paul considers unnecessary.
"From my point of view, I think this is a smaller, more narrow proposal, and it stands a better chance than a broader proposal," Paul said after what he described as a "very cordial" discussion with the president.
"This bill truly is a way to begin doing this immediately," Paul said. "Everything else is completely grandstand. If the president agrees to help me with this, it could actually work. ... This actually would allow the highway administrator to prioritize bridge projects to immediately begin spending money on the ones that highway engineers say are deficient."
Paul's proposal would redirect funding for low-priority projects to make critically needed safety repairs to bridges like the Brent Spence between Kentucky and Ohio and Louisville's Sherman Minton Bridge across the Ohio River between Kentucky and Indiana.
The proposal calls for a nationwide priority list based on critical needs.
Read more: FRANKFORT, Ky.: Paul offers Obama alternative bridge repair plan | State | Kentucky.com
Still, Infrastructure Maintenance and Repair is more a State or Local Matter. Yes States do receive Federal Funding, and that is a part of the equation, but the burden does reside more at State and Local levels.
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