Truthout
Infrastructure
US Treasury and Transportation Departments Hold a Privatization Party
Ignoring the benefits of taxes as a revenue source forces us into depending on the people who crashed the economy to fund our infrastructure.
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Public Infrastructure, Private Investment? Whose Hands Are in Whose Pockets?
In reading the US Treasury Department's glowing new report on public-private partnerships, truth must be separeted from fiction.
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Should the Internet Be Like the Public Library?
A recent study put the US at number 31 in the world in overall download speed, lagging behind much smaller countries like Estonia, Hungary, and Slovakia.
Water Wars and Creeping Privatization
The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act holds promise for life in a world shaped by climate change. However, privatization proponents are working hard to privatize ownership and control …
Infrastructure Sticker Shock: Financing Costs More Than Construction
Funding infrastructure through bonds doubles the price or worse. Costs can be cut in half by funding through the state's own bank.
The Road to Ruin: Can We Afford the Anti-Tax Movement?
Privatizing infrastructure improvements depends on public money - and a lot of it, points out Ellen Dannin.
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An American Road to Nowhere
Paul Krugman: Asking how we will pay for infrastructure may seem prudent, but it is in fact deeply foolish.
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C’mon America … Let’s Keep the Lights On
Mass power outages are becoming more frequent and they're a sign of this nation's aging electrical infrastructure, which is stuck in the 19th century.
JOBS, Again
The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.
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Prosperity for Main Street, Not Wall Street
The key reason that communities are struggling is the huge burden of interest payments that are flowing to the big banks.