I guess I figured "yes, you do all inspections and maintenance on all bridges all the time and pay for it with taxes". If taxes go up, so be it.
> What if the local government is unhealthy (ideologically opposed to service, disenfranchised citizens, perhaps a southern state)?
Yeah, that's a general argument against giving any government any kind of responsibility (for any issue, how do you know that the government in question will be healthy enough to manage the responsibility?). But I think we can agree that some government should do this, and given the choice between state and local governments which might be dysfunctional (but which have collectively outperformed the federal government for the last two decades) and the federal government which we know to be completely dysfunctional, I would pick the former.
> What if the local government is unhealthy (ideologically opposed to service, disenfranchised citizens, perhaps a southern state)?
Yeah, that's a general argument against giving any government any kind of responsibility (for any issue, how do you know that the government in question will be healthy enough to manage the responsibility?). But I think we can agree that some government should do this, and given the choice between state and local governments which might be dysfunctional (but which have collectively outperformed the federal government for the last two decades) and the federal government which we know to be completely dysfunctional, I would pick the former.
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