re: #166 cliffster

Yes, your 100% abstract stipulation contains no logical fallacies. It doesn’t address who is paying it, who is deciding what X is or that it will be 10X in the future, etc etc. But yes there are no contradictions in what you said.

Materials and labor prices are down now. We’d spend less now doing maintenance that will cost more later, both in terms of competing for materials and labor in a healthy, recovering, saturated market, and because deferred maintenance inherently costs more to fix later. This is precisely the time to repair our aging infrastructure.