Well that's a nice didactic take that overlooks so
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Posted On: 10/11/2016 1:32:18 AM
Well that's a nice didactic take that overlooks some salient examples of Federal largesse on behalf of the NATIONAL good/needs.
We would not have the TVA or Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams without more Federal money than State money being applied to the tasks.
More recently, for some of us:
Big projects, regional or national in scope, require Federal expenditures, in excess of what individual State can muster.
I didn't check the cost for the dams, but I'm pretty f*ckin' certain that the States of AZ and WA, deep in the Depression, did not come up with most of the scratch.
Tell you what, if an Infrastructure Bill comes down the pike...pun intended....email your State's Congressional delegation and give them your 'civics lesson' as a reason to opt out of Federal $.
Think about it the next time you drive down a crumbling road or over a bridge whose safety rating may be marginal. And water pipes, almost forgot those.
We would not have the TVA or Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams without more Federal money than State money being applied to the tasks.
More recently, for some of us:
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The final estimate of the cost of the Interstate System was issued in 1991. It estimated that the total cost would be $128.9 billion, with a Federal share of $114.3 billion .
Big projects, regional or national in scope, require Federal expenditures, in excess of what individual State can muster.
I didn't check the cost for the dams, but I'm pretty f*ckin' certain that the States of AZ and WA, deep in the Depression, did not come up with most of the scratch.
Tell you what, if an Infrastructure Bill comes down the pike...pun intended....email your State's Congressional delegation and give them your 'civics lesson' as a reason to opt out of Federal $.
Think about it the next time you drive down a crumbling road or over a bridge whose safety rating may be marginal. And water pipes, almost forgot those.
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Over two hundred million trips are taken daily across deficient bridges in the nation’s 102 largest metropolitan regions. In total, one in nine of the nation’s bridges are rated as structurally deficient, while the average age of the nation’s 607,380 bridges is currently 42 years.
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/bridges/
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that to eliminate the nation’s bridge deficient backlog by 2028, we would need to invest $20.5 billion annually, while only $12.8 billion is being spent currently.
The challenge for federal, state, and local governments is to increase bridge infrastructure investments by $8 billion annually to address the identified $76 billion in needs for deficient bridges across the United States.
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