BTW, I added Florida to the topics because St. Petersburg just approved a new very expensive monorail plan, despite the objections of their own transportation planners.
St.Pete is still bedazzled by the socialist twaddle from the St. Pete Times. That rag is owned by the Poynter Institute which is as far left as the NY Times.
Let such areas go broke. Then the governmet assets can be sold off and small government actualized when big government goes broke.
If bonds are to be defaulted on, then the taxing authority will have to raise taxes. Eventually, the socialists who voted for these projects will have to sell their homes for whatever they can get when the tax burden becomes too high.
Isn't that just wonderful! The free market has built in mechanisms to punish socialists. :-)
The Dem mayor of Indianapolis is promoting a monorail/light rail system, and the Indianapolis Star (once conservative, but now that it is owned by Gannett, its editorial policy has "grown") is promoting it relentlessly.