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This is in fact how many projects get built today, even without eminent domain.
by technobabbler 5y ago
This is in fact how many projects get built today, even without eminent domain.
- zdragnar 5y agoIf graft is a problem, the answer should not be "make graft easier and more common"
- technobabbler 5y agoGraft is just one problem out of many though. Lack of public investment in public institutions, I'd argue, is another, bigger problem. I'd like to see graft tackled by more competitive elections (multi-party, ranked-choice, easier voting processes, etc.) rather than simply gutting the government so it can't do anything at all... I think the conservatives call that starving the beast? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast That just puts government in a death spiral and drags huge swaths of society down with it. By comparison, a small degree of graft is an inefficiency inherent in any large organization. As a taxpayer or customer, it doesn't necessarily matter to me whether $20 of my $100 goes to a politician's vacation home or the CEO's yacht, as long as the shit gets built effectively. If it gets to $50 or $80 of that $100 though... yeah, shit's broken.