When Republicans Own The Joint,....

This is what your state on Republicanism looks like

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South Carolina depends almost entirely on its gas tax to fund highway maintenance, and it hasn't raised its gas tax since 1987. Even before the floods, 20 percent of the state's 8,300 bridges were rated structurally deficient or structurally obsolete, and a road advocacy group made up of business leaders estimated it would take $500 million extra a year just to patch the pothole-dotted roads that shake vehicles as they drive over them.

South Carolina Department of Transportation worker Radames Zambrana was at a bridge Wednesday where flood waters washed out the support underneath. He was getting ready to request big barricades be put up instead of the small traffic cones to make sure no one drove on the intact pavement, supported by almost nothing.

"I'm seeing this everywhere," Zambrana said, pointing at the gaping hole under the bridge where soil was washed away.

About 260 roads and 150 bridges remained closed Wednesday, many of them washed out, according to the Transportation Department.


http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/10/07/flood-slams-south-carolinas-already-shoddy-infrastructure
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/12/1430988/-This-is-what-your-state-on-Republicanism-looks-like