#Bestof2021: 1/2: Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
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#Bestof2021: 1/2: Redistributing tax dollars: State funding for the public good? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
https://www.hoover.org/research/infrastructure-distortions
The impending multibillion-dollar infrastructure deal between the Biden administration and the Senate Republicans has been hailed as welcome bipartisan cooperation that augurs well for the revitalization of this nation’s aging infrastructure—and for improving the lives of many Americans. This narrative plays so well because the term “infrastructure” now carries a seal of approval. Private expenditures may be suspect as greedy, but not public expenditures.
1790 Sulla
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| 0:52.0 | Discount available through December 24th. Save now, I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. Infrastructure, the word itself, easy to imagine a bridge, a very large bridge like the Golden Gate Bridge, infrastructure. |
| 1:16.4 | I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow, he teaches |
| 1:21.1 | law at NYU and the University of Chicago, writing about infrastructure. |
| 1:25.7 | And over the years, the professor has guided me to understand that there's a deal to discover |
| 1:31.6 | in the Roman Empire, particularly because the professor teaches |
| 1:35.6 | Roman law to young law students. I am not. What I could do was go read about the Roman Empire in English and that brought me to the city of |
| 1:45.8 | Londinium 2,000 years ago where infrastructure was critical for bridging the Thames, for the |
| 1:55.0 | the marshes that were south of the Thames that needed to constantly being drained or |
| 1:58.0 | deal with the roads being washed away in season. |
| 2:01.0 | And then there was the amphitheater that had to be maintained, perhaps with |
| 2:05.6 | donations to the various gods, perhaps with donations to the Emperor Augustus, the Emperor |
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