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William Watson: User-pay is a good principle for infrastructure

It's both fair and efficient that the people who benefit from infrastructure should pay for it. In new subdivisions, that means residents

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The NFL’s Chicago Bears are thinking of moving just across the Illinois state line to Hammond, Indiana. Hammond is 20 miles from Chicago’s Loop. The Bears’ current home, Soldier Field, is only two miles from the Loop but it was built in 1971 and they’d like something new and covered. If they do move, that will give little Indiana a second NFL team, alongside the downstate Indianapolis Colts, which would be a coup for a state with just two per cent of the U.S. population.

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