Republicans are aghast at President Biden's plans to upgrade the country's infrastructure. 

"Too expensive," they cry. "It's not infrastructure," they cry. "It costs too much," they cry.

The Republicans want to return to the glory days of TrumPutin's regime, when the emphasis was not on building infrastructure, but on building infrastructure weeks.

"Infrastructure Weeks weren't expensive," they cry. "Talking about infrastructure is infrastructure," they cry. "Infrastructure Weeks  didn't cost much," they cry.

TrumPutin had several hundred Infrastructure Weeks a week, and for him a week without an Infrastructure Week was like a week without golf with Lindsey Graham. "Lindsey always let me win," TrumPutin was fond of saying, while tousling the senator's thinning hair.

And an Infrastructure Week never threatened to jeopardize the tax breaks that the Republicans handed their CEO friends. Because the bottom line for Republicans is that an effective corporate tax rate of zero is the best infrastructure.