Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi...
by Retric on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:11PM
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1/2 of US local government spending is education and healthcare, infrastructure is a long way down the list.
That almost completely destroys the small town argument because cities don’t need to pay for the education or healthcare of their suburban workers. An office building is a net gain where a the same space devoted to housing often costs the local government more in services.
Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi...
by SECProto on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:18PM
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? 0 percent of education is municipally funded (it's all provincially funded). Healthcare too is all provincially funded (though actually mostly funded by transfers from the federal government). Obviously I'm only speaking for all of Canada here, and can't speak for the US where it's likely more varied.
Do you have some stats or links for municipal (or equivalent) tax raising/spending?
Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi...
by Retric on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:21PM
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This discussion doesn’t really work in a global context as funding choices vary so much. Here is the US breakdown.
https://usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2021USbl_22bc...
The inverse is true for dense urban units: per-unit costs for urban units are far lower than the per-unit taxes.
{1} (roads, sewers, water treatment and distribution, waste collection...)
{2} (repaving once every 20 years, repainting once a year, repairing sewer pipes every 40-60 years, water pipes every 80 (unless they were installed in the 50s-80s, in which case every 30), etc)