Our new president and Congress have inherited a bushel basket of problems, one of the toughest being the federal budget: the deficit, spending priorities, taxing.Amid all that, we have the little matter of $500 billion that needs to be spent in the next 20 years or so to renew drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. No one denies the work has to be done. So, where will we get the money?During the presidential campaign, we heard the usual noises about how we need a federal spending freeze and how we can’t raise anyone’s taxes. We also heard about the supposed evils
