Modern civilization requires planning, design engineering, operations, maintenance, facility retirement. These activities require vast sums of money from a populace able and eager to fund them. The combined effort is incompatible with a society that expects others, outsiders -- to pay for everything. Subsidized government kills. It's long past time for the citizens of the Municipality to start paying their own way through life. See: Stop offshoring your problems; keep pols out of the infrastructure business; private equity = the death knell of the world.