America’s infrastructure – its roads, bridges, tunnels and highways – are in bad shape and getting worse. The New York City subway system dates back to 1900, and just this morning multiple lines were snarled for hours due to track fire that caused thousands of commuters headaches. The Philadelphia and Boston systems are just about as old, and all are in bad need of repair, with aging cars, poor communications and signal systems. The water supply in Flint, Mich., is contaminated by lead, because of poor equipment and maintenance. Many people, including children, have been sickened. Many bridges across the country have been deemed by the U.S. Department of Transportation to be sorely in need of repair. Yet despite the dire need for action, U.S. Congress has not taken definitive steps to help repair the faulty infrastructure. Martin Tuchman, a founder of Interpool, one of the nation’s leading container leasing corporations and founder also of Trac Lease, the largest chassis leasing company in the country, has advanced a proposal to improve the infrastructure. He has placed his proposal on a video, which can be seen at TuchmanFoundation.org.(see link below) Mr. Tuchman’s proposal centers on bringing back the money U.S. corporations make overseas. He proposes that by proposing a federal tax rate of 5 percent – versus the higher 35 percent rate, a substantial amount of money can be brought back to the United States. But unlike Trump's plan for repatriation, which would allow companies to decide on what to do with the funds, Mr. Tuchman's plan says the U.S. government would require the companies to invest in the U.S. infrastructure, in order to forgive the higher tax rate. Mr. Tuchman proposes that this would be done by allowing the companies to retain 70 percent of the cash to use in any way they wish, while 25 percent would be used to purchase Municipal Bonds from participating states. The Municipal Bonds would be owned by the individual companies and remain on their balance sheets as assets. The companies would be retaining 95 percent of the funds they are bringing back into the US. Mr. Tuchman has repatriated several hundred million dollars back to the U.S., which he successfully invested in the U.S. economy and has been an adviser to Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York on repatriation and finance issues. Congresswoman Maloney fully supports Mr. Tuchman's repatriation proposal. Mr. Tuchman is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Tuchman Group, an investment group with holdings in real estate, banking and international shipping. He also serves as Chairman of the Tuchman Foundation, an umbrella company for the Parkinson’s Alliance. The Alliance works closely with Parkinson’s research organizations that seeks grants from the National Institute of Health. Rep. Maloney has been a member of Congress since 1992 and is recognized as a national leader with extensive accomplishments on financial services, national security, the economy, and women’s issues. She is a senior member of both the House Financial Services Committee (where she serves as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets) and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the Ranking House member of the Joint Economic Committee. In the House Democratic Caucus. Both Martin Tuchman and Congresswoman Maloney are available for interview to give more detail on the proposal.