Most of the taxes should be going back to the people inside this country, and they are

Ukraine spending is a hundred times less than the money going back to the states. The problem is the money going to the states is not necessarily spent on what it needs to be used on

Much of these pipes breaking is the local citizens paying a corruption tax for supporting decades and decades of mismanaged and stolen money. The entire USA has layers on layers of criminals in government at the federal state and local levels

Red states have more issues because more corruption, but blue states have a lot of problems too