Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Robert Poole of Reason takes a look at some of the “infrastructure projects” local politicians are clamoring to have included in Washington’s new “stimulus” package and finds a lot of stuff that is extremely low priority. Read Poole’s piece here.
He quotes JLF’s good friend Dave Hartgen on the folly of ladling money into urban mass transit that few people ride.
I say that if the mayor of Hercules, CA wants a “Waterfront Duck Pond Park” costing $2.5 million, he ought to see if he can find some donors who think it’s worth the money. Naturally, though, politicians would rather just take money than have to compete for it.
