Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Fiscal cliffs are frequent news of states, cities, and other entities that mismanage revenue.
Time to reduce service to reflect actual usage and need.
My wife’s downtown Chicago office is trying to get staff back to in-person work, and the MTA and CTA are in an awful state. Unreliable schedules, dirty and decrepit equipment, homeless clogging lots of stations, busses and trains. Transportation between stations and offices for those who can’t make the walk to-n-from (or don’t feel safe doing so) is expensive and hard to arrange. Soon to be bankrupt, the article tells us, and solutions under discussion are all based on “equity of capital investment” and “climate goals” and require, “an increase in the existing RTA sales tax levied in Cook County… Read more »
The main purpose of Chicago transit is free rides for downtown crime thug mob wilders — time to give CTA a decent burial