Biden's Infrastructure Plan Isn't About Infrastructure. It's About Paying Off Political Allies.
As it turns out, a huge chunk of President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan doesn't have much to do with infrastructure.
This is not much of a surprise, given that Biden's pandemic recovery bill had almost nothing to do with the pandemic. But in some ways, it also misses the larger point. Even many of the parts of the bill that are nominally about actual physical infrastructure aren't really about infrastructure. They're about shoveling money in the direction of Democratic political allies—mostly unions. And that explains a lot of the...