The morning-after crowd is hammering Donald Trump for intellectual incoherence, but it’s a bum rap. I’ve gone back over the transcript of his Monday night debate against Hillary Clinton, and what I find are more provocative proposals than he quite knows how to organize. But it’s clear where he’s going, and by the second debate next month Trump should be able to present a national economic strategy that will sail him into office.
But how to translate the inevitable Trump Boom into new roads and bridges? One way to go is to count on the building and expanding to hike overall taxable revenues despite the cuts. This is traditional trickle-down economics (what Clinton referred to as “trumped-up trickle-down”), which never fails to work sensationally on the blackboards of conservative think tanks.
And think of the transformation of the interstate highway system if it were vertically integrated into the corporations that depend on it. The Ricketts family, for instance, already Trump supporters, could take over I-55 between Chicago and Saint Louis and roll the toll into the ticket price for Cardinals fans driving up for a Cubs series.
