[meta-story][open] Solving two housing problems, or opening a can of worms?

[robkelk]

Subject: RE: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?
From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 23:09
To: undisclosed-recipients

> Take the loss; if you're *that* freaked about losing a few million sols
> we can always pool the money. The Fed's flush with credits these days,
> and most of the major industrial concerns in cislunar & cisjovian can
> pitch in somewhere.

I'd love it if the Federation Council pitched in on this - it would save me the trouble of finding liquid capital that I could plow into the project.

But do the cis-Jovians have a stake in this? Is it at all fair to ask people who don't live anywhere near Mars to pay for something that's only going to benefit Port Lowell?

(Past my bedtime; back tomorrow.)

--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

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