[sp332]

But if I want more buses, I can't just give the money to the city. They'd have to make some kind of contorted tax category that only applies to me so they can take my money. That's assuming I can convince them to spend my money on the buses instead of some other project.

[dragonwriter]

> But if I want more buses, I can't just give the money to the city.

Sure you can -- its called a grant. Private entities can issue grants with public entities as the recipients -- it happens all the time.

[sp332]

Huh, that's cool. But since Google is already running buses, how does interposing the city make tings better?