Your comment is quite disingenuous.

You know perfectly well that the mantra of “lower taxes” has been employed by the Republican party at every level of government, from small counties and municipalities up to the federal government.

You know perfectly well that this mantra is parroted verbatim all the time, with no reference to what standard they should be “lower” than, nor to what “taxes” are specifically indicated. You can easily imagine the reception of anyone at any Republican gathering who were to propose that there is some necessarily level of taxation and spending, and suggest what it might be, rather than merely holler for “lower taxes” and “smaller government”, without reference to any rational standard.

It is highly reasonable to conjecture that, when a long period of domination by the ideology just described above coincides with a period of major deterioration of the transportation infrastructure (among other things), that there is a connection.

…In many cases, with money received from the federal government. One of the most notorious examples is Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere.” Widely regarded as a huge waste of taxpayer dollars, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens was able to get it built in his home state with earmarked federal funds.

“tax cuts” refer to federal taxes generally, especially when given your reference to the WH and Congress.

Bridges, steam pipes, power grids … and almost all the million other disasters are paid for by state and local governments.

So … logically you must fully support those federal tax cuts then?