Third, it may be asking too much of Washington in its current state of polarisation to give the green light to an ambitious infrastructure plan. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the US needs to spend $2,200bn in the next decade simply to maintain the existing quality of infrastructure. Under the current budget, Washington will spend less than half that amount. It requires a leap of faith to assume that it will double, say, rather than fall sharply, when the bipartisan fiscal bargain is struck next year – if indeed it is.
第三,华盛顿目前处于两党对立的状态,此时要求它向一项宏伟的基础设施建设计划大开绿灯,可能不太现实。美国土木工程师学会(American Society of Civil Engineers)的数据显示,仅仅是为了使基础设施的质量维持在现有水平,未来十年美国就需要投入2.2万亿美元。根据目前的预算安排,美国政府在这方面的支出连这个数字的一半都达不到。我们基本上只能靠信念才会相信,明年两党财政协议达成(如果真的能够达成的话)之时,这方面的支出将会翻番、而不是大幅降低。
In a departure from their party’s traditions, many Republicans are now ideologically opposed to any serious federal role in infrastructure and want to decentralise it to the states. It is thus also a stretch to imagine Congress setting up a public infrastructure bank, as Barack Obama has requested. The bank would use $10bn in seed money to leverage a multiple of that in private money for cross-state projects – much like the European Investment Bank. The chances are that it will stay on the drawing board.
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