Taxes

A bridge collapses in Minnesota, just one of many 40+ year old bridges in this country. We've spent the last 30 years not investing in infrastructure, and the bill is coming due.

So, what does President Bush think we should do? Why, cut taxes, of course! No, not taxes for you or me, corporate taxes, to make US corporations more competitive around the world. I'm sure his next step is to hand out no-bid contracts to Halliburton and his other cronies to "re-build" our infrastructure, since that's worked so well in Iraq and Lousiana.

Meanwhile, an increase in the gax tax to pay for any of that is a bad idea, of course. President Bush thinks that raising gas taxes is a bad idea because 8% of the monies raised tend to get spent for projects favored by members of the relevant committee in Congress. Horrors! Such venal graft!

I can only hope that the anti-tax mania of the last 30 years is passing, and that people are coming to realize, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "taxes are the price we pay for civilization." President Bush and the Republicans may still be in thrall to Grover Norquist, but there's a simple solution to that: vote 'em out.