Murphy Siding Euclid CMStPnP CShaveRR It's a "public-private partnership"...that's pretty sure to mean that the public pays the taxes and the benefits go to entrenched private companies. Actually maybe not, I think during the Japanese PM trip he will announce they are picking up the tab for the Dallas to Houston HSR route as what Texas Central previously stated. Not 100% sure but it's a strong possibility as Texas Central is still insisting it will get built without U.S. Taxpayer money AND they need to cough up some serious Capital before 2018 if they are to start construction then. So we will see. In this "public-private partnership," what does the private investor get for their invenstment? A guarantee from the government on the loan, silly.
Euclid CMStPnP CShaveRR It's a "public-private partnership"...that's pretty sure to mean that the public pays the taxes and the benefits go to entrenched private companies. Actually maybe not, I think during the Japanese PM trip he will announce they are picking up the tab for the Dallas to Houston HSR route as what Texas Central previously stated. Not 100% sure but it's a strong possibility as Texas Central is still insisting it will get built without U.S. Taxpayer money AND they need to cough up some serious Capital before 2018 if they are to start construction then. So we will see. In this "public-private partnership," what does the private investor get for their invenstment?
CMStPnP CShaveRR It's a "public-private partnership"...that's pretty sure to mean that the public pays the taxes and the benefits go to entrenched private companies. Actually maybe not, I think during the Japanese PM trip he will announce they are picking up the tab for the Dallas to Houston HSR route as what Texas Central previously stated. Not 100% sure but it's a strong possibility as Texas Central is still insisting it will get built without U.S. Taxpayer money AND they need to cough up some serious Capital before 2018 if they are to start construction then. So we will see.
CShaveRR It's a "public-private partnership"...that's pretty sure to mean that the public pays the taxes and the benefits go to entrenched private companies.
It's a "public-private partnership"...that's pretty sure to mean that the public pays the taxes and the benefits go to entrenched private companies.
Actually maybe not, I think during the Japanese PM trip he will announce they are picking up the tab for the Dallas to Houston HSR route as what Texas Central previously stated. Not 100% sure but it's a strong possibility as Texas Central is still insisting it will get built without U.S. Taxpayer money AND they need to cough up some serious Capital before 2018 if they are to start construction then. So we will see.
In this "public-private partnership," what does the private investor get for their invenstment?
A guarantee from the government on the loan, silly.
Oh believe me, I have no support for, or confidence in the deal. I just figured that since the media is reporting that the deal is being made more palatable by claiming to be partly privately funded, someone ought to explain what the funder gets in return.
A crash progam of instrastructure spending is one of the most efficient ways to waste public money for the purpose of growing the government and strengthening the unions.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Billions for barges, but not one cent for freight rail. Bad plan.
Mac
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Not to be an unqualified pessimist, but I'll believe it when the bulldozers start moving.
Starting, of course, with the entrenched bulldozers in the Congress - which has to fund all this stuff.
Hey! Isn't this the kind of, "Let's make jobs with public money," thing that the other Party is notorious for...
Chuck (centrist independent)
CMStPnP Ha! Two in Texas, Dallas to Houston HSR line finance. Cotton Belt line between Plano, TX and DFW Airport (which will be the 4th rail option into the Airport). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3409546-Emergency-NatSec50Projects-121416-1-Reduced.html
Ha! Two in Texas, Dallas to Houston HSR line finance. Cotton Belt line between Plano, TX and DFW Airport (which will be the 4th rail option into the Airport).
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3409546-Emergency-NatSec50Projects-121416-1-Reduced.html
The feature that seems to have the most appeal is that there will be some 'Funding with Private Investment'. Infrastructure projects will provide a lot of benefits/jobs to society in the areas of their construction.
It seems like the New Administration is moving along with more speed and positivity than 'Washington' is used to seeing.
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