All over America infrastructure is in dire need of repair, replacement, and/or updating, but the Tea Party and Republicans say we’re taxed too high and want to (or are) cutting programs that would fund just that. If anything, we need to RAISE taxes and get the revenue in the federal government to dole out to states, counties, and cities to repair our infrastructure before we see another I35 disaster.
It takes money to do repairs. Government’s ONLY way to raise money is to tax. We need to get our collective heads straight and stop listening to the panderers that only want votes. Delaying repairs is not only foolish, but it borders on manslaughter. All engineers and construction people know that damaged infrastructure only gets worse. Whatever the cost to repair the infrastructure, it is MUCH more expensive to pay out lawyer fees, settlements, and court judgement when it fails and injures and/or kills people.
We all use and need infrastructure. It’s the roads you drive, the pipes that bring you water and take away sewage. It’s the power lines that run most things we use and the gas that heats your homes and cooks your food. It’s sewage treatment plants that clean up the used water before returning it. It’s water treatment plants that clean out bacteria and other pollutants for your tap water. It’s telephone lines and cable tv, broadband internet, bridges, waterways, dikes, levees, dams, and highways.
THIS STUFF NEEDS UPKEEP AND UPKEEP NEEDS MONEY!
Can you do with out water? How about gas for heat? Electricity? Do you want better service? Better roads? Do you want that dam above your home to keep all that water where it is?
We’ve delayed doing this for way too long. Things are starting to fail. Nothing lasts forever. You buy new cars, new appliances, and new clothes…or you fix them so they’ll last a bit longer.
There is no other way to do what needs to be done than to raise taxes and do it. Besides, fixing infrastructure provides thousands of good paying jobs…and boy, do we need jobs.
Sidelined Buddah 