What was the last "Republican" Policy or Idea that was enacted and was actually a good idea?

[Ken Burch]

48. Yes and no

That idea had a major, MAJOR negative tradeoff:

In exchange for the funding of the highway system, the railroad system was basically left to rot. We're STILL paying the price for that, with people who might have traveled inexpensively across the country by train being forced to spend massive amounts of money on gas, with our dependence on oil both foreign and domestic being massively increased, with a commensurate increase in the political power of the petrochemical industry(reaching its ultimate expression with the election of two Big Oil ceo's as heads of our government for eight years), and with the economic destruction of small towns all across the country that happened to be unfortunate enough not to exist on the Interstate routes.