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# Drew Clark: Congress should modernize highway funding with ‘chips,’ not ‘concrete’
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/drew-clark-congress-should-modernize-highway-funding-with-chips-not-concrete/
- Published: 2015-05-26T17:31:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T06:30:25.000Z
- Description: WASHINGTON — So much of politics here in the nation’s capital is about moving money from someone’s pocket to someone else’s. As a result, the threat of generational or sectional warfare frequently lurks below the surface of budget debates. That’s why it’s refreshing when think tanks and politicians
- Author: Drew Clark
- Tags: Broadband's Impact, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-02-01 10:23, #added-preview-divider

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> WASHINGTON — So much of politics here in the nation’s capital is about moving money from someone’s pocket to someone else’s. As a result, the threat of generational or sectional warfare frequently lurks below the surface of budget debates.   
>  
> That’s why it’s refreshing when think tanks and politicians disseminate ideas that can expand — rather than redistribute — the nation’s economic pie. They do this by enabling policies that unlock value-creation.   
>  
> Take federal transportation funding. The worthy idea of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is to direct no less than 5 percent of federal highway funding to information technology-based transit projects.

Source: [www.deseretnews.com](http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865629332/Congress-should-modernize-highway-funding-with-chips-not-concrete.html?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com)

Important insight from Information Technology and Innovation Foundation: High-tech transportation spending can unlock new benefts.

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