Comment Re: We the taxayer get screwed. (Score 4, Insightful) 356
Having rich and poor is an inevitable feature of any civilization that has ever existed or ever will exist. The societies that try to eliminate it (namely, communists) end up destabilizing quickly.
You mean, like Canada, that slum-ridden cesspit to the North?
Try dialing down the dogma a fraction, and accept that there are reasonable compromises that provide reasonable mitigation to the worst aspects of any economic system. You might find that it is indeed possible for sober public investment in private enterprise not only to work, but to work well. There's a whole sub-discipline in economics devoted to the study of it. Yes, there are downsides to Public/Private Partnerships (it even has a name!!), but with the proper checks, they can sometimes work better than either a purely public or a purely private undertaking.