The US had designed a system where large numbers of municipalities need more revenue then they actually produce. This has led to large swathes of the country ha

The US had designed a system where large numbers of municipalities need more revenue then they actually produce. This has led to large swathes of the country having crumbling infrastructure as tax revenues are not adequate to maintenance. The solution is to maintain things like highways federally and move to a system of living that generates more funds. This likely means higher property tax rates in suburbs which is wildly unpopular and part of the reason all the infrastructure is crumbling. I know the specific piece of infrastructure isn’t in a suburb but failing cities have similar revenue problems.