GOP places magical unicorn hopes on 'massive tax breaks' to fund Trump's infrastructure plan

There's just a few giant problems with Donald Trump's massive $1 trillion infrastructure plan. 

1. Republicans have no idea how to pay for it, reports Politico:

Trump's advisers are so far floating the same kinds of financing schemes that Congress has batted around for years with little success, including proposals to lure private investors or reap a revenue windfall through an overhaul of the tax code. Key lawmakers say they’re in the dark on how Trump’s plan would work — with some conservatives simply hoping that his call for massive tax breaks will provide an economic jolt that makes the hard spending decisions easier.

2. The plan doesn't necessarily build, well, infrastructure (e.g. new roads, bridges, water systems or airports), so it doesn't guarantee any new jobs, writes Ron Klain, former Hillary Clinton adviser:

It’s a tax-cut plan for utility-industry and construction-sector investors, and a massive corporate welfare plan for contractors. [...] Trump’s plan provides tax breaks to private-sector investors who back profitable construction projects. These projects (such as electrical grid modernization or energy pipeline expansion) might already be planned or even underway. There’s no requirement that the tax breaks be used for incremental or otherwise expanded construction efforts; they could all go just to fatten the pockets of investors in previously planned projects.

3. Republicans really have no idea what the "plan" even entails, reports Politico:

Even congressional Republicans who have long championed spending on transportation projects say they don’t yet know the details of Trump’s 10-year proposal, which the president-elect has vowed will “put millions of our people to work” while making U.S. infrastructure “second to none.”

"Look, we don't have the details," House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) told POLITICO. "We're working very closely with his transition team and hopefully with the new department head to figure out how we're going to pay for it. It's got to be fiscally responsible."