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BART Bailout: California Budget to Include $1.1B for Bay Area Transit (sfstandard.com)

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[–] FlashMobOfOne 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honest question: Is it really accurate to characterize funding for a public utility or service as a bailout? Or are taxpayers just getting value for their tax money?

I would think a bailout would be when we're giving public money to a for-profit entity that massively mismanaged itself.

[–] superbeans 10 points 1 year ago

I mean there's a decent case that BART hasn't been managed very well. I'm a big supporter of public transit but I worry that there won't be enough oversight for this money.

[–] fubo 5 points 1 year ago

Is it really accurate to characterize funding for a public utility or service as a bailout?

No, it's not. Consider: We don't refer to highway funding as "bailing out" the automobile industry, for instance; even though the automobile industry couldn't very well sell very many cars if there weren't highways to drive them on.