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Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by product50 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:42PM (#16174756)
The fact of the matter is that those $64B will not be returned to the taxpayers and will probably be diverted to other less relevant projects.
Re:California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B by bmmayer1 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:22AM (#16177716)
Actually infrastructure projects like this (and including this one I believe) are usually paid for with bonds which means id the project doesn't happen, the money is never borrowed in the first place.