I was always under the impression we have crappy roads because of planned obsolescence. Basically we have crappy roads because we need to employ union workers

I was always under the impression we have crappy roads because of planned obsolescence. Basically we have crappy roads because we need to employ union workers to fix them. So the $50 million we save not fixing crappy roads is basically $50 million out of the union income, which impacts elections. I don't know if this is actually the case, but it seems plausible.