Unfortunately, infrastructure maintenance doesn't get people (re)elected. Infrastructure expansion does. And infrastructure expansion increases the future bur

Unfortunately, infrastructure maintenance doesn't get people (re)elected. Infrastructure expansion does. And infrastructure expansion increases the future burden of infrastructure maintenance. +1 on the lack of true fiscally conservative. The choice is between tax-and-spend and cut-tax-and-spend. Of those choices, the tax-and-spend is the fiscal conservative.