On Friday, March 10, 2017, the Center for Economic and Social Justice (www.cesj.org) posted News from the Network, Vol. 10, No. 10:
Infrastructure in the United States has been given a “grade” of D+. The price tag for bringing things up to par is (according to the experts) trillions and trillions of dollars. Naturally, nobody knows where to get the money, but that’s only because they’re not looking at making actual people owners of the infrastructure and putting things on a for-profit basis. With modern technology, it should be relatively easy for regular users of roads, bridges, airports, and so on, to be billed regularly for their actual use, while others pay at the point of use, as is the case with many toll roads today. Commercial banks could extend financing and rediscount the loans at the Federal Reserve, creating new money backed by the infrastructure itself.
