When the government buys a piece of steel, a chunk of that is property taxes of the owner of the factory building, a huge chunk of that is business taxes, a huge chunk of that is income taxes of the workers that work there.
If the government can own that infrastructure as a fully nonprofit entity that pays zero taxes, the government can buy the steel for $50 instead of $100. That means our income taxes can also be much lower, because the government can be more efficient.
Right now a huge chunk of the taxes you pay to the government go toward paying second-order taxes.
And the property, business and income taxes still need to get paid.
> And the property, business and income taxes still need to get paid.
Not if the government owns it and they decide it's tax exempt. They can also build it on government land, and decide that government land is property tax free.
SCOTUS determined that merely having a cellphone, which is a modern necessity, creates too much privately held data that the telcos shouldn't be allowed, even when they want to, to hand it over to the government without a warrant.
Basically all we have to do is expand the types of data that land in this zone.
This isn't your fault but really this post doesn't really belong on HN, it's an unconfirmed political report
Simulacra•35m ago