There is no excuse to pass the buck of infrastructre on to the tax payers after the 2009 "Stimulus" package was passed that was supposed to fund shovel ready jobs. That "stumulus" is now built into the baseline budget every year.
Where is all this money going? Certaintly not infrastructure.
From the Economist:
"The stimulus bill’s spending on infrastructure may have been doomed to mediocrity from the start. First, and most important, a relatively small share of the bill was actually devoted to infrastructure. Mr Obama called the bill “the largest new investment in our nation’s infrastructure since Eisenhower built an interstate highway system in the 1950s.” But even on the broadest definition of the term, infrastructure got $150 billion, under a fifth of the total. Just $64 billion, or 8% OF THE TOTAL WENT TO ROADS, public transport, rail, bridges, aviation and wastewater systems."
http://www.economist.com/node/17311851