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Re:Lessons learned from a failing local mall by handsomechad on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:37AM (#16951606)
>>> and (2) avoiding hidden subsidies of national chains due to the way we budget for infrastructure (governments subsidize building, but not maintenance).

what do you mean that "governments subsidize building, but not mainteenance"?

who pays for maintenance?

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Re:Lessons learned from a failing local mall by bzbarsky on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:07PM (#16961781)
> who pays for maintenance?

In the failure case, no one.

That is, government funds get assigned to building new roads in preference to maintaining existing ones.

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