• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    Investment. That means they are putting money in and expecting to make a profit. They will dump $100 million billion in the U.S. and we’ll have to pay them back… with interest. In other words, we’ll get $100 million billion worth of infrastructure, or something, and end up paying $200 million billion or more for it with our taxes. No matter what the Republicans say, privatization is never a good thing.

    Edit: Oops! Meant to say billion but my fingers were working faster than my brain.

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      Plus you don’t have to reach any sort of consensus or achieve a majority of support. It’s also not subject to filibuster