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Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by karmelapple on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:08PM (#14455075)
How can we better quantify the costs? That's where, I think, many people have a blind spot.
Re:The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure by TulliusCicero on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:53PM (#14455387)
Don't have an authoritative answer for you, but I thought this chart was pretty great; it shows the profit/loss for the local government (so, taxes vs spending) for different neighborhoods for a city in Lousiana: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...