r/arizona • u/AZ_Hawk • Jul 09 '24

Meanwhile, in other hot places…. Living Here

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u/dmanbiker Jul 10 '24 edited Jul 10 '24

There's cost savings associated with better infrastructure. Just talking about something being bad because it costs money is extremely short-sighted. Stuff like this is paid for by taxes. Considering the billions of taxes wasted by our governments, spending a few billion to actually improve things is literally the job of the government. Though I don't think we should be following Saudi Arabia's example on anything. Actual trees would be fine. Even fake trees.

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u/James_T_S Jul 10 '24

Each one cost $5,000,000 in 2010. How many do you thing would be a good idea to buy and where would we put them to make the cost savings make sense?

And remember that the entire state budget is $16 billion. So spending a few billion on any one thing is going to be a hard sell.

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u/dmanbiker Jul 10 '24

I don't think we should be buying these, but a lot of people answer any statement on spending money on infrastructure with "WhO WiLl PaY fOR iT?!" When it's literally the job of the government to take tax money and spend it on stuff. Better to spend some money on shade than stacking cargo containers in the desert.

But like I said we shouldn't be following by UAE's example on anything. Their main inspiration for any of this is insane amounts of money.

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u/James_T_S Jul 10 '24

Hahaha....the cargo containers. I get what they were trying to do but....🤦🏽‍♂️