Just a quick look at the metropolitan area statistics for the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the US shows it only takes to about the top 30 area to get half the US population.
Yes, lots of people live in SUBURBS of 15,000 of less but the vast majority of people live in metropolitan areas. I have for most of my lifetime. But I would never say that I lived in a small city. I lived in a small suburb of a big city.
But ignoring the factual fallacy, everyone benefits from infrastructure investment. It creates jobs which powers the economy. It helps the flow of goods, energy, and information by improving roads and rail, the electric grid, and providing high speed data possibilities.
If you can't convince people that better electric grids are needed after the last month, you need to do a better job communicating. If you can't convince folks that high speed internet needs to be available to all schools and communities after a year if online or hybrid learning, you aren't talking about the impact it has on families. Literally thousands of bridges in this country are to the point that even a mild catastrophic weather event cod cause failure.
Yes, corporations and the wealthy might have to pay a FAIR share instead of relying on corporate welfare. But everyone benefits from infrastructure. Here in Iowa, google and apple got $500 million in tax breaks PLUS infrastructure improvement for two facilities with a total of 100 workers. They didn't pay a dime, but the two million people who live in iowa who pay for that with no real benefits to the rest of us.
It is about communicating facts about who benefits, corporations or people...who pays and how.
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