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    1. Kim-Mai Cutler‏Verified account @kimmaicutler 13 Feb 2019
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      Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Megan McArdle

      Lazy framing on HSR (at least, initially):https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1095783939111817222 …

      Kim-Mai Cutler added,

      Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
      Answer: too much government.
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    2. Kim-Mai Cutler‏Verified account @kimmaicutler 13 Feb 2019
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      Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Megan McArdle

      Better, and @joemmathews wrote a column on how California has too many small and stupid governments: http://zocalo-on.kcrw.com/2016/03/californias-problem-is-not-big-government-but-too-many-small-and-stupid-governments/ …https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1095784533033734144 …

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      Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
      The problem with American infrastructure at its deepest level, is not that the government is involved. It is that too many governments are involved. Federalism is a fine system in many ways, but it's a bad way to do transportation.
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    3. Kim-Mai Cutler‏Verified account @kimmaicutler 13 Feb 2019
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      Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Megan McArdle

      True, more pressure points to create a vetocracy, where nothing gets through:https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1095785310229803024 …

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      Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
      Also, lobbying small governments is easier than lobbying big ones. If you read NYT piece from Brian Rosenthal on why NYC's 2nd Avenue subway, you may have noticed the insane union featherbedding, the incredibly high union wages, the unbelievable number of consultants underfoot
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    4. Kim-Mai Cutler‏Verified account @kimmaicutler 13 Feb 2019
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      Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Megan McArdle

      True, many other European countries use civil law, rather than common law, which is just inherently a more litigious system: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/02/10/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-2/ …https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1095789575874719750 …

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      Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
      We also much more than other countries on legal liability rather than regulation, which has its merits, but means that projects do a lot of defensive work aimed at forestalling (or winning) lawsuits, and we have to get through the suits themselves, which are slow & costly.
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    5. Kim-Mai Cutler‏Verified account @kimmaicutler 13 Feb 2019
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      Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Megan McArdle

      Also, sadly true. Way cheaper to build HSR from Houston-Dallas in Texas which isn't on a bunch of giant seismic faults and has flat, instead of steeper, vegetated terrain: https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2018/11/29/bullet-train-texas-central-what-to-expect.html …https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1095791615845773315 …

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      Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
      But HSR is just a really, really hard push in the US. Texas is the best use-case: reasonably flat, and reasonably cheap land in between major cities. NE corridor has the highest need, but not the political will to tear down all the stuff you'd need to tear down to build the track
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    6. Kim-Mai Cutler‏Verified account @kimmaicutler 13 Feb 2019
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      Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Megan McArdle

      Yep. A gravy train (except for prospective riders):https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1095792324074975255 …

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      Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
      No! No, Democratic interest groups killed HSR in California! Groups that wanted the project to employ many, many people at above market wages. NIMBYs who wanted it to run anywhere but through their back yard. Environmentalists who wanted complicated reviews. Etc.
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    7. Kim-Mai Cutler‏Verified account @kimmaicutler 13 Feb 2019
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      Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Megan McArdle

      Yep.https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1095792567990538241 …

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      Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
      That's just the reality: if Democrats want HSR, they are going to have to take on their own interest groups, because it is Democratic interest groups that disproportionately either drive up the cost of construction, or protect veto points that affluent homeowner groups exploit.
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    8. Ian Monroe Voting Yes On Prop 15‏ @eean 13 Feb 2019
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      You agree that ~all US infrastructure costs being double that of overseas is the fault of Democratic party interest groups? What a load of nonsense.

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      Kim-Mai Cutler‏Verified account @kimmaicutler 13 Feb 2019
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      we could've engaged more international engineers to build it:https://slate.com/business/2019/02/high-speed-rail-in-california-and-the-green-new-deal-it-could-work-in-america-but-were-screwing-it-up.html …

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