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Will US learn from a $1.7 trillion goof that would have paid for Biden's infrastructure plan?
The F-35 Lightning II Demo Team performs at the Fort Lauderdale Air Show on the beach in Fort Lauderdale Florida on Saturday, November 21, 2020. - Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS

Will US learn from a $1.7 trillion goof that would have paid for Biden's infrastructure plan?

A Ferrari is surely a wonderful sports car, but let's be honest: Most of us couldn't afford the day-to-day maintenance, let alone the sticker price, and these beautiful creatures are hard to drive on America's pothole-plagued streets, and a massive pain in the butt to repair when they break down. So you can imagine the raised eyebrows earlier this year when a top U.S. Air Force general compared the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet — decades and hundreds of billions of dollars into a lifetime that will cost taxpayers $1.7 trillion — to that Italian dream machine. "I want to moderate how mu...

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