But the land sales have also helped federal agencies subsidize basic infrastructure needs, including phone lines, housing, equipment shelters, road construction, fire stations, parking lots, fencing and power supply.
The reversion back to a telephone-like pay system is intended to subsidize digital infrastructure projects in developing nations.
From 2000 to 2025, the study projects taxpayers will subsidize transportation, infrastructure and development costs of sprawl for metro Los Angeles, Washington/Baltimore and San Francisco to the tune of $120 billion -- not counting the costs of police, fire, schools, health care, energy and many other big housing-related government costs.
The same holds true for decades of subsidizing the infrastructure of overseas factories -- loans for power stations, water projects, roads, and ports to service them -- so that it eventually became cheaper to shift US manufacturing abroad.
Why else would his government use $15 billion of public funding to subsidize "revenue-generating" infrastructure projects while privatizing public facilities like seaports?
In the United States, current residents of a city or town typically subsidize new construction and infrastructure even before new residents move in.
The one exception is billions of dollars earned from offshore oil and natural gas production — money that is being used to build infrastructure and subsidize basic food needs.
If corporate investors are turning to MOOCs as a source of easy profit (especially if they are counting on the government to subsidize their investments in infrastructure and technology or even per-student pay-outs), then solving the problem of income inequality is not driving the business model.
If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in a landslide that delivers both chambers of Congress to Democrats, she will have the opportunity to boost the minimum wage, expand Social Security benefits, deploy a robust new infrastructure program, subsidize child care and make college tuition free for every family outside of the upper class, as her policy platform promises.
The new chargers are subsidized through an infrastructure grant from the authority, but not the trucks, for which the company received federal incentives.
