Anonymous ID: eed6d4 May 2, 2019, 6:09 p.m. No.6398135   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Kek

Oligarchy just got 2trillion in tax cuts, now they want another 2 trillion in government subsidizing to update their infastructure.

America gets a D+ on infastructure.

What it will be is hardening of private corporation infastructure they wont do themselves because it doesnt do anything for their bottom line.

Potus is right.

Coal processing plants are 50 years old and were already upgraded. They did their job and new ones can be built that are even cleaner and will last for another 50 years.

And coal can go hard again.

We need roads and bridges and new water pipes and treatment, dams etc.. not better broadband.

Keep corporations out of this.

Oligarchs never learn.

Rome refused to rebuild their infastructure too.

 

Problems with public/patnerships

 

Log-rolling and pork-barrel politics: I'll vote for your PPP if you vote for my PPP.

Weakened market tests: resources are devoted to a project not because it benefits the citizenry but rather because it benefits a powerful interest group and/or because a creative referendum entices a majority of voters to support their special interests.

Weaker Management: Absent market tests, managers are less motivated to find that mix of services and creative array of financing tools to ensure that it proves "profitable" (that is, a rational allocation of capital). Roads, even charter schools, etc all have suffered here immensely.

Lack of innovation: No institution in the private world can allow itself to stagnate - the creative forces of destruction will soon make it obsolete. PPP managers face much weaker innovative forces - if things go wrong, they can always appeal to their "public" nature for taxpayer bailouts.