Infrastructure, like roads, bridges, highways and the like, are about the only places I’ve seen government dollars go to somewhat good use.

Having worked an unsafe, brutal, low wage labor job…yeah, I could have done much more with what money I had if taxes were lower. If sales and gas tax was lower, if property taxes were lower, so those increases weren’t passed on to the tenant. I actually kind of enjoyed that job, but I work a job I rather despise now, despite making over 4x the hourly rate with a union to, supposedly, have my back, and I took it because I couldn’t afford $10 an hour anymore.

Conservatives believe the individual makes their way. Leftists believe the government provides the way. There can be some overlap in how policy is applied, sure, but the worldview between the two camps is so vastly different, this hardly happens any longer.