[mrow84]

The first bullet point in your second link is:

"Public investment in infrastructure sits at its lowest level since records have been kept because of underfunding across all levels of government."

And the lead into the second graph, which shows real-terms per-capita public investment is:

"On a per capita basis, real government spending on structures is the lowest it has been since at least 1950."

Given statements like that, I don't see how you can make the leap from "Spending on infrastructure is going up." to "The issue is not lack of investment, it's out of control costs."

[yummyfajitas]

That is the mood affiliation of the post - it is in fact the only position on infrastructure that is within the overton window.

But I'm citing the graphs, not the mood affiliation. The graphs show a large increase in spending on transit/water infrastructure and a large increase in costs.

There is also relatively flat per-capita government investment in structures (a broader category which includes buildings/similar things, and is not the typical power/transit/water cited by the parent).

[jbooth]

Hang on, are you really pointing to nominal spending increases while hand-waving away that real, per-capita spending is down?

[yummyfajitas]

Per-capita spending on structures is down.

Since 1992, federal spending (in real terms) on transportation/water infrastructure has doubled. State spending has increased by 2.5x. Population has increased 25%.