You hit all the points. 
The problem is that taxes are unpopular...and make an easy target for the lousy Repukes to use to gain their real goals: selling us and our country off to the highest (campaign)bidder. 
I wish we could take the lying GOP obstructors/sell-outs, and put them in a car and drive them off of this bridge. 
Vote for campaign finance reform, people, and in the mean time...figure out ways to get things done with local people working together. Look to groups like City Repair to get ideas of how to work with consensus and local initiative.
Yeah, I know this won't work on really big projects, like the collapsed bridge, but try to help each other, any way we can. Our government is currently a subsidiary of Greed, Inc. 
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