Public-Private Partnerships may not be the bargain we have been led to believe.

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the least expensive solution may simply be for government to get better at building infrastructure itself

This being something so easily achievable... NOT!

Seriously, the AG seems to be comparing real life costs with an imaginary alternative.

I think it's good that the AG is pointing out that there are no empirical studies to back up this assumption. The PC response was also quite interesting. But the alternative is quite tricky indeed. It's hard to get good at doing something and it's going to be expensive. The government may have been good at doing this in the 60s (but things were less complex then) but it certainly isn't now.