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Clarification: It is bogus that infrastructure loses money. Without infrastructure, there is no commerce, there is no modern life.

Obviously, we need government to decide what infrastructure goes where. Government is our public forum, nothing else. Government allows us to deal with our daily lives, while some workers (politicians and civil servants) figure out all the crap we don't want to deal with.

Privatizing infrastructure (for instance through public-private partnerships or tolls) is the worst thing you can do, because you're basically allowing private companies to tax citizens, with minimal or no democratic oversight. I am no constitutional scholar, but I think you could argue it's unconstitutional.

If it quacks like a duck, waggles like a duck and looks like a duck, it is a duck. Likewise you can call something a "toll", a "congestion charge", or a "HOT lane", but it's still a (defered) tax.

by Jasper on Mar 9, 2009 5:15 pm • link • report

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