Above: "Flood Control," a sculpture by Karl Lang (1897-1952), created while he was in the New Deal's Section of Fine Arts, 1942. This sculpture is at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building in New Orleans. Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and Carol M. Highsmith.
In the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card by the American Society of Civil Engineers, dams and related flood control systems received a "D".
During the New Deal era, massive investments were put into dams, levees, flood walls, etc. We could do the same thing today, if we stopped cowering before the rich, like frightened mice, and taxed them more.
The super-wealthy have gobbled up more and more resources over the past few decades (thanks, in large part, to the the massive tax cuts we foolishly handed them) but they've done little-to-nothing to improve the nation - unless you think crumbling infrastructure, as well as boring jobs, stagnant wages, reduced benefits, and underfunded retirements are wonderful things.
It's well past time that we tax the hell out of the rich and fortify America's infrastructure.
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