Infrastructure should be public anyways, so instead of giving grants to private for profit companies, it would instead use that money to just fund the infrastructure.
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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is why I fucking hate government grants to corporations. These assholes never put in safeguards to actually force these jackass companies to actually use it as intended.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Government grants should come with government share % of the company.
Or at least with heavy requirements and obligations like every government “grant” for normals people.
Zink@programming.dev 4 months ago
Oh I think it’s all going how it was intended. Just not going according to the public justification.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Although I understand the sentiment, the instrument under which the funding has been granted is called NEVI and has pretty strict requirements about what gets built (150kW rated, payment terminal equipped charging stations along major roads) as well as transparency requirements about reliability.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Can they just not build them and keep the money though?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Looking at the several billion dollars that we gave the telecommunication companies for “nation wide high speed fiber infrastructure,” I would say the answer is not only yes, but we will keep giving them more money for the same damn thing.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Yeah, that came to mind too
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I’m OK with grants for certain things/times/whatever. But it seems like if the owner is worth billions and comes to the gov’t for a handout, the gov’t should just tax them correctly and say,“No you.”