Their Plans With Your Money

Their Plans With Your Money

President Trump, Democrats, and Republicans have big plans with your taxes (and your children’s future payments) to fund the military, welfare programs, roads, abortions, etc. ...
Charles Scaliger

On Monday, February 12, the Trump administration unveiled a $1.5 trillion plan to upgrade and improve America’s sagging infrastructure. Although the term “infrastructure” dates from the 1930s, it was the Clinton administration that turned it into a household term denoting the sum of systems that allow a complex society to operate efficiently. Key elements in our infrastructure — roads, bridges, railways, telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and so forth — have become staples of political discussion ever since, with both parties vying to be the Party of Infrastructure.

In recent years, collapsing bridges, deteriorating streets and highways, and an aging, outage-prone power grid have all drawn attention to the decline of our once-robust infrastructure. Highways that once glistened with new asphalt are now overcrowded and underfunded, resulting in potholed interstates and crumbling overpasses. An electrical grid for which power outages were almost unknown now seems much more vulnerable to storms and heat waves. And the problems continue to multiply, as government funds once used to keep the infrastructure state-of-the art are diverted to other, less-essential uses in the interest of the ever-expanding welfare state.

Put simply, government is struggling to figure out how to afford infrastructure maintenance. In an age where government is also expected to take care of millions enjoying various welfare benefits and to spend vast sums maintaining a military used not merely for national defense but for “peacekeeping” missions all over the world that have more to do with defending foreign borders than our own, there simply isn’t enough left to spend on keeping the roads and communication systems in proper repair — let alone build more of them.

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