Economist’s View: A Bridge to Future Tax Burdens: Remember those ‘bridges to nowhere?’ You know, $500 million to build two bridges to rural towns with a combined population of less than 100 that already had regular ferry service? Remember when Congress took away that funding after Katrina, so they could use the money to rebuild bridges in Louisiana? Remember the uproar? The ‘national embarassment?’ How taking the money away was the only right thing to do? They did take that money away… didn’t they?

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