Turning the Profit Motive to Public Use
-The question to ask before actually solving a problem is “how could it profit us?”
-Most cities do a project and see what the expense is. To be successful though you have to figure out how much money we can make.
-In the age of fierce resistance to taxes, the government cannot look at itself as a nonprofit organization.
-Men’s softball league: they paid $25 a team to play when it was actually around $140 per team to run the league. When the price was raised to $90 the players were angered, but when the price was raised to $400 they were pleased because they realized that they could get sponsors to pay the amount. The city profited $260 per team which they used to invest in a girls’ softball league and recreation for senior citizens.