Pay the Man

The bridge collapse in Minnesotta should make all of us think where our tax dollars going? Iraq, of course. Granted our Republican friends hate taxes and only want to cut cut cut. Who then pays for the police? Who pays for traffic lights to work? Who pays for the infastructure of our country to be maintainted?

My grandfather, who still lives alone as he approaches his 97th birthday, has always said, "Pay your taxes. This is the greatest country in the world. Look at what they do for your grandmother." (My grandmother was in a nursing home for the last years of her life with Parkinson's. All paid for with our tax dollars.)

I love the library. I like seeing police cars drive down my street. I want to know that a fire truck will be on the way if my house catches fire. I want senior citizens to have Social Security so they can eat. I'd like to think when I drive on the Sunshine Skyway bridge that I'm not going to end up in the drink.

Meanwhile, every one of the Republican nominees are pledging not to raise taxes and are boasting of how many times they've cut them whether as mayor, governor or senator. They all want to wrap themselves in the mantle of Ronald Reagan who said government is the enemy. Sure it is, when a Republican is running it.

Good to know that they're willing to pay billions of their grandchildren's money on an unwinnable war while letting bridges collapse in Minnesota.