Moses marketed authorities as apolitical, efficient, and free to taxpayers

Evidence

Public authorities are also outside and above politics, Moses said. Their decisions are made solely on the basis of the public welfare, he said. They have all the best features of private enterprise. They are businesslike—prudent, efficient, economical. And they are more. They are the very epitome of prudence, efficiency, economy. And they have another advantage over conventional governmental institutions as well. Since they finance their projects through the sale of revenue bonds to private investors, they therefore build these projects without using any public funds. Projects built by authorities, he said, cost the taxpayers nothing. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 86

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the myth-shattering ‘costs taxpayers nothing’ framing the reader prizes—parallel to how institutions disguise true costs in the base/empire literature. — connects to: Moses’ authority projects secretly cost taxpayers billions in hidden subsidies — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 90

Broader Connections

• Moses’ authority projects secretly cost taxpayers billions in hidden subsidies #contradicts (0.92) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 90