Our infrastructure has been falling apart since Reagan. But instead of spending money on Infrastructure, Republicans gave rich people and corporations tax breaks and refused to spend any money on anything including infrastructure.
Our bridges are falling apart (among other things), and its Ronald Reagan's fault. A few hours before the bridge collapsed in Minnesota, a news release landed (among hundreds) in my email inbox. It was from the right-wing "Heartland Institute" and a Minnesota conservative group calling itself...
www.commondreams.org
In Michigan I remember they wanted to fix the roads and asked us common folk how we wanted to pay for the roads. Tax incease, gas tax, registration fee increase? How do WE want to pay for the new roads.
So why did Reagan, Bush and Trump give rich people and corporations tax breaks? That money used to pay for infrastructure spending. So i was right. Giving them tax breaks would shift the tax burden more onto us. Even if they don't increase my taxes if they just add it to the debt, ultimately, if rich people and corporations are getting special tax breaks, then even that is shifting the tax burden more onto us.
We need to roll back the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax breaks.