One year ago today, 13 people lost their lives and multiple others suffered severe injuries when the 1-35 bridge in downtown Minneapolis collapsed. Every citizen for miles around has been on that bridge too many times to count. My own husband was on it that very afternoon, just a few hours before the tragedy.
In my opinion, this is what our taxes are for: to provide safe and solid infrastructure, enough police and firefighters, good schools, snow plows, inspected food, clean energy, etc.
A rising tide lifts all boats, and we won't have a functioning society without taxes. My dream: that our leaders actually lead and make damn good use of our tax money. That I don't have to worry that the ground underneath my feet will sink away because we've become too greedy to share.
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Your taxes are for Blackwater and whoever else the Bush crime family wants them to go to.
Are you some sort of commie pinko nutcase? We're engaged in a WAR on TERROR.
I hope the sarcasm in that previous comment was adequately obvious. What is more terrifying than having the infrastructure of our nation crumble beneath us?
I've got a right wing brother-in-law, well more than a few of them, and when one of them starts bitching about taxes, I bring up this exact point. I like having paved roads, water in the tap, trash pick up, and some semblance of a system that will make sure that the shit that is flushed from my toilet will be treated before it reaches the beach in which my kid swims.
"My dream: that our leaders actually lead and make damn good use of our tax money."
Me too! That's why I'm voting anti-incumbent AND outside the corrupt 2-party system!
Unfortunately this is precisely what happens when you take people that avowedly hate government, and ... put them in charge of the government.
oh god what a day that was.
Oof. Those pictures, by my calculation, are worth 30,000 words, or roughly the number I plan to put write this summer and fall encouraging a vote for Obama. He may not singlehandedly build (literal or figurative) bridges, but he - and the corps of actually *competent* people who'll go to D.C. with him - will at least keep them from falling down.
This is a wonderful post Mnmom- so well put.
To live in a manner of interconnectedness and interdependence... a dream that must become reality.
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