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How do you pay for infrastructure without taxing someone? Mass transit has other goods than the immediate user.


Bonds against future revenue.


isn't that what governments already do? they issue bonds then collect taxes for the coupon payments (debt service).

raising money this way results in very small risk premiums (so low interest rates)

if every project would have to do it separately it'd probably cost even more.

and to solve the obvious problem of efficiency a prediction market could be used to decide what to fund with the "cheap" money.




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