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| reply to jsinaiko
Re: Wifi in the Heartland?
See I've disagreed with HI on LOTS of things but- unlike most left leaning municipal issue think tanks (read: academia)- they end up producing copious amounts of data to support their assertions; so I'm inclined to give their positions a fair look. All you seem to have is ad hominem? And by the way:failure to hold forth in agreement with the ideals of your Roman Catholic Socalist homeland is not evidence.
The fact that that municipal transportation systems don't make money is EXACTLY the point: government isn't designed to run a networked point-to-point enterprise [if you'd like the finer points to this assertion I'll be happy to expound in detail via email but essentially it boils down to this: goverment was designed to handle consistent descrete needs- roads, telephones, anything piped from a limited source don't fit this definition since these infrastructures are ALWAYS in flux].
All this project seems to do is, like the CTA, create a system that will artifically stimulate demand by artifically lowering the supply cost at what will likely be taxpayer expense (this is Chicago, after all, where EVERY endeavor ends up a net liability to the treasury). Now you don't sound like a supply sider but perhaps I'm wrong.
And make a reasoned argument this time, will ya? |
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