| Misunderstanding of bonds From what I've read, no tax money has ever been spent. The bonds are used as collateral to obtain loans from banks, and that money is used for construction. Utopia's revenues are used to pay the loan, and no loan payment has ever been missed.
As for infrastructure profitability, I hope Utopia never becomes profitable, because that means they aren't spending enough money on improving the network. Consider the interstate freeway system. No corporation would have built such a network of roads on its own, but thanks to major roads like I-15 that run from Mexico to Canada, it's possible to ship goods via ground from California to the mountain west in two days, and interstate commerce is booming as a result. Utopia is a similar concept.
Die-hard capitalists seem to think that any project that isn't benefiting someone financially to the exclusion of others is evil and/or socialist. |
