Our fuel taxes in Colorado have not changed in 3 decades, but you wanna know what has changed this last 3 decades? Us selling most of our roads to private companies and them charging us all tolls to drive on em.. C470 is like the most expensive toll road in the country, and its mostly empty cuz nobody wants to pay $45 to get to work on the other side of town every day.
Damn, cheaper to fly the plane to work....lol
Yes, that's the sort of "infrastructure development" the right is happy to fund.
The idea of government efficiently providing actual "public goods", is seen as socialistic, and anathema to their ideology that the market can (and should) do it all.
Plus of course public infrastructure requires taxes as opposed to private investment.
Let's not turn it political on this one but the facts around my statement were not to stir up a left/right debate but an awareness of what is really happening to US infrastructure.
FYI, I'm a Libertarian, I see through the BS on both sides and do not stick to a party line. Let's not forget, the states are responsible for their own infrastructure by the privilege of our founding documents and has always been that way; if your state has significant infrastructure issues than your government party is responsible for it and they are the ones paying those private corporations. I live in Cali, the most government regulated place in the states and 5th largest economy with the highest taxes and regulation on private and business life; we surely are not RIGHT over here but we seem to have the most failing and expensive infrastructure as well? Look what is happening with the exodus of California; how our state votes and how they actually run their businesses are being felt in every place they land outside of this state on exodus.
The market is an EKG of the richest people's feelings that day; you want to have a good view of who the richest people on the planet are and then look at who doubled and tripled their money during a global pandemic; most specifically we will just use our own country of the US; I would say it surely is not leaning right so give those "right" men/women a break on general terms cuz those facts do not line up as public record shows who and how our richest vote and also what kind of tax break their corporations are getting; no wonder they don't want tax reform.
The facts show what years and what votes removed the most money and most infrastructure projects and during what and who's administration both state and federal side.
Let's not poke at people's political affiliation here please; its the one safe place we have left.
But I will do it over a campfire with you anytime....lol
