tinstartrvlr wrote:
As Aridon said:
"Folks generally don't support tax hikes. We can afford to bomb and build roads in other third world countries more readily than taking care of our own infrastructure"
The answer is all in the priorities, and every other country in the world seems to be more of a priority than our own.
It is much cheaper to build those roads. After the area is bombed you no longer need to pay all that money to do studies about what kind of insect or animal that road will effect. There is nothing left to study.