REALLY? Have you spent any time ever bothering to check into how many of the public works in your town are failing or downright dangerous?
There are tons of things in my town and county that have just been patched up for decades, waiting for the time they might actually get fixed somehow.
And the jobs created fixing this stuff could set a lot of kids along the right path.
State funding is fine, more power to it, but especially in depressed-income states, a little fed help wouldn’t hurt.
Do you also rail against federal help for fire or flood-damaged areas?
Please justify why MY federal tax dollars should be used in YOUR state for YOUR crumbling infrastructure.
This is yet another case of wealth transfer from fiscally prudent states to profligate and wastrel states that piss away TONS of tax payer money on liberal feel good projects.
We just got tax reform done that ends cross subsidies to high tax states tjat are used to help people there with high mortgages (SALT deductions). This is exactly the same thing.
You should not care if I have bridge or road problems in my town. It is as inappropriate for us to get federal grants as it is for you.
Let the STATES decide and pay for it.