Central Oregon Transit Boondoggle
29th January 2026
The key to building a large bureaucracy is to concentrate the benefits of that bureaucracy on a few people who will lobby for more money while spreading the costs to so many people that no one has an incentive to lobby to cut the budget. In the case of transit, helpful reporters will always seek out the hard-luck cases of people who claim to depend on transit subsidies without ever looking for hard-working people who are having to pay for those subsidies.