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nina gregory
@ninaberries · 0:41

Who should pay for new infrastructure?

article image placeholder'We're Not Prepared': Experts Call for Doubling Levee Protections as California Faces Increasing Floods | KQED
After a really rainy and snowy winter here in California. Spring and summer is going to bring a lot of that snow melting and possibly flooding areas in central California. And there's a story that KQ le D has done we're not prepared. Experts call for doubling Levy Productions as California faces increasing floods. And the question I want to know is who pays for new, new infrastructure? The state, who's going to pay for this?

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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:25

@ninaberries

Wow. So you're talking about, I don't know, 500 million, right? At least. Climate justice stuff too. It's interesting when people in the poverty zones are affected by broken levees, it seems to be this emergency situation where it's a patchworks reaction. But when we're looking at people from across socioeconomic backgrounds being affected by this, it's interesting to see who's legislating particular policies that maybe have already been in place versus ones that need to be created
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:44
Nina I always ask myself, why do I have to pay for new infrastructure? Isn't that why I'm paying taxes? Aren't taxes supposed to be for infrastructure? We pay our taxes every year in the hope that some portion of it is going to the state, some portion is going to the federal government, and they are supposed to give it back to us in the form of services and infrastructure. So why do we need new bonds and new ways to raise money for new infrastructure, then?
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