Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

[Nick Arnett]

There's an email circulating on the net regarding $250 billion to rebuild
New Orleans, which one of Louisiana's senators apparently is asking for (I
didn't check that fact).  The email suggests that this is an obvious waste
of taxpayer money, since it comes to about a half million dollar per
resident.  Aside from questions about this particular number (was that for
the current or pre-Katrina population, for example)... I haven't been able
to find any particularly good figures on the actual per capita value of
public infrastructure or the cost of replacing it.

Anybody have any idea where such figures might be found?

Of course, one could argue that if the market sees efficiency in rebuilding
New Orleans, government can just get out of the way and it'll happen.  ;-)

Nick

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