Within hours of learning of the collapse of the I-35 bridge, I wondered if a backlash against the anti-tax crowd would develop. If one op-ed piece in today's Star Tribune and several letters are any indication, the backlash has started.
To have an infrastructure we need taxes. If you cut taxes, you reduce your care of your infrastructure. If you reduce care of your infrastructure, people and businesses can't thrive. In fact, some of them may die.
Grover Norquist wants to reduce government to the size he could drown in the bathtub. Well, because of his ilk, some people have drowned in a river.
