Why should a person who isn't checking a bag subsidize all those bag checkers, for whom an expensive infrastructure is bought and maintained?
More broadly, creating a budget surplus is more about protecting today's older taxpayers, many of whom already have the infrastructure they need to see out their days.
It's high time, in other words, to look away from "features" and towards people for whom an entire civic infrastructure might be clasped in the palm of one hand.
On Thursday, Biden spoke at a Washington conference on job creation and infrastructure immediately after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of the progressive base with whom he met privately in August, stoking talk of a possible dream ticket of Democratic luminaries.
But the movement's vanguard today is a new generation of Tea Party-inspired lawmakers and activists, many of whom arrived in Washington denouncing the infrastructure spending in President Obama's stimulus program.
I don't even know the cloud providers to whom those companies have outsourced their infrastructures.
He has called on the UK government to state publicly how the investment in critical national infrastructure was approved and by whom.
