States- Rebuild Public Infrastructure — Stop Letting Corporations take advantage

States- Rebuild Public Infrastructure — Stop Letting Corporations Offload Their Failures Onto Us States need to fund the public systems that working people depend on. That means modernizing air traffic control, upgrading energy grids, expanding reliable rail, and restoring the consumer protections that airlines and consolidated industries have spent years lobbying away. The decay we're living through is not bad luck — it's the direct result of legislative defunding, regulatory rollbacks, and corporate monopolies that externalize their failures onto the rest of us. The pattern is clear: when climate stress hits an already understaffed system, the network snaps. Wealthy travelers and executives bypass the collapse entirely through private aviation and retained services, while everyone else absorbs the cost in emergency lodging, lost wages, and padded schedules. We cannot individually purchase our way out of systemic collapse. That's not a metaphor — it's the lived reality of anyone who has been stranded in an airport while a monopolized carrier offers a voucher instead of accountability. Stop letting corporations privatize their profits while socializing their failures. Restore enforceable consumer rights, reinvest public revenues into foundational infrastructure, and end the regulatory capture that has made this two-tiered system the default. The strength of this country is measured by what its public institutions deliver to everyone — not by the private exits available to the few who wrote the rules.