Baruch Feigenbaum is assistant director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation, a significant player in the world of transportation policy. The foundation is sharply critical of President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure grab bag of plans. Feigenbaum, in an email interview with the Washington Examiner, discussed the proposal, the vehicle miles traveled tax, and the future of transportation funding in early June. This is a lightly edited transcript of that conversation.

Washington Examiner: Granting that this is all analysis and not advocacy, the Reason Foundation recently came out swinging against President Biden’s infrastructure plan. The Reason Reader, which is sent out to supporters, had five articles picking it apart. Just how bad is this grab bag of proposals?