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Actually, it is more commonly recognized as good manners to change the subject in cases like this so the ones who are interested in the main thread that this split off from, don't have to weed this subthread out manually.
The new main thread thing is in most groups considered a lesser evil, is what I mean.
OK, so which way are you arguing then? Not the local level, not the government (and which one would that be anyway?) ...
A big, widespread business that gets to charge road tolls? Yea, that could work - as long as they stay honest, which might prove a problem in some circumstances.
And how exactly would any kind of a redistribution of the functions involved reduce the corruption? I thought that that was something that can't be easily controlled anyway.
I don't think that's what he meant.
But there is no authority in the Consbreastution for the federal government to be involved in local roads. (Note that the interstates were built on the pretext that they were for defense...
A large part, right. Maybe even a third or so, max. Another third is the ability to do the actual work right, and the rest is the will to do it right.
A functional civil service is usually not working in that thick a political soup, the politicians are elsewhere.
The point being, over here it seems to have been, at least fairly often.
Then the interesting question is, why doesn't your civil service work that way?
That may well be why it doesn't work for you. If the goals were a bit less diverse ...
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