| Because otherwise it'd be a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good? That scenario would happen anyhow even at market rate. As a taxpayer I'd rather see some money wasted, and some progress being made, rather than nothing getting done ever. Corruption and waste are tolerable to some degree, IMO. "Government wastefulness" is too often code for not letting the government do anything at all. I just don't think our current societal bottlenecks are due to a budget or GDP crisis. There is so much wealth locked away, I'd rather it be spent on public works even if it means losing a few cents on the dollar to corruption along the way. It's not like the private sector is risk free, or that the government doesn't waste money on wars and questionable foreign aid already. There is such a backlog of infrastructure to build, whether roads and bridges or prisons and schools and climate change mitigation or renewables or nuclear... we gotta do something about that. If that means a slumlord getting rich, I guess it's a cost of doing business? Or what's a better alternative? |