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Old 06-11-2019, 11:27 AM
 
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Originally Posted by STLgasm View Post
The biggest impediment to progress in the St. Louis region is unquestionably the fact that we're trapped in the state of Missouri, who's ultraconservative legislature is hostile in regards to pretty much everything that would benefit the St. Louis metropolitan area and its citizens. Medicaid expansion, abortion access, public transit funding, higher education funding, immigration/refugee resettlement, gun control, increasing the gas tax, increasing tobacco tax, common-sense restrictions on freaking plastic bags-- you name it, if St. Louis is for it, the state of Missouri is against it.
Some of these issues, in particular Medicaid expansion, gas tax and abortion access, are more beneficial to rural areas than they are to StL. It's the rural counties that are really missing out in terms of crumbling infrastructure and services.
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