Trump says he aims to suspend gas tax "for a period of time"

[Prairie Gates]

19. Suspending the gas excise tax will mean suspending the highway projects it funds

Notably, many of these projects are the sole employers of white working class men in rural areas.

Projects are going to be canceled across the country, though probably not until next summer or the one after. Trump has fucked the MAGAs again, in other words. The consequences of their actions will have a long tail.

Trump's war jacks up gas prices, which causes a suspension of the federal excise tax, which will cause shortfalls in the federal highway funds, which will cause cancelation of the highway projects in rural areas that mostly employ young white working class men, who overwhelmingly, thus, voted enthusiastically for their own unemployment.

Tra la.

If this didn't also result in increased highway deaths as infrastructure crumbles, it would almost be bitterly funny. You live in a global economy, fellas, whether you like it or not.