Got a look at some informational flyers from the 1990s about the economic impact of PVTA; mostly familiar stuff but some Orwellian bits too
The "private" companies involved here are de facto state enterprises. They don't turn any profit and require public funding.
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It's just that taxpayers would rather be told that we're creating "private sector" jobs than know how it actually works.
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so how are the taxpayers appeased?
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Perception. You can pretend that this creates private sector jobs and nobody looks twice at it.
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Or, put it another way--if they found out how this actually works, they would immediately stop being appeased.
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