The Bridge Didn't Collapse For a Lack of Funds

Rush Limbaugh, during his monologue yesterday, outlined some of the things Minnesotans have been spending tax money on instead of fixing a bridge that rated 50 out of 120 on a structural deficiency scale:

This is just a list of pork in Minnesota. A new $776 million Twins stadium to be paid for with a Hennepin County sales tax increase approved by state legislators with no voter referendum, $97.5 million for the North Star commuter rail line, $34 million in subsidies to ethanol producers that have seen a 300% increase in profits in the last year, and yet they're still being subsidized, $30 million for bear exhibits at the Minnesota and Como zoos, $12 million to renovate the Schubert Theater in downtown Minneapolis, one million for a replica Vikings ship in Morehead. Other states are building drag racing museums. They run around and say they don't have enough money to fix the bridges. They don't have enough money to deal with the infrastructure. The thing is with liberals they'll never have enough money, no matter how much they raise, no matter how much they increase taxes.

Two-thirds of the new Twins stadium is being paid for with taxpayer funds. They have the Metrodome; do they really need a new stadium more than they need to fix up their local infrastucture? Rush made a lot of great points in his monologue. Read it all here.