Re: This is what I've been saying for a long time now
The most fundamental lie in the "infrastructure" argument is that it is always used to justify a bloated Federal government, and yet almost all of our standard infrastructure that is government-funded at all is done at state and local levels. Even "federal" highways (except for the Interstate) are state projects.
When I looked into it, a huge number of things that most people probably thought were government projects, aren't. The power grid, for example.
More on government-funded science here.