Why can’t a county or city dig a hole, or lay a mile of light rail without making new millionaires out of half a dozen bankers and their favorite lawyers? Why does all urban development have to be gentrification? Is government’s real function to guarantee that a layer of banksters and lawyers get paid their cut before anything else moves?
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