- Plus, we have an infrastructure crisis in this country. ..... Guess what, those types of things (burst pipes, sinkholes on highways, etc.) happen several times every day across this country, but they don't make headlines. Our infrastructure is decaying, but, hey, taxes were cut- and the $$ we should have been using to maintain this country's infrastructure was instead funneled to corporate cronies... And people wonder why the gap between rich and poor is growing....