# In an op-ed, Professor Roy Smith argues that the US should privatize its infrastructure

1 Faculty News August 13, 2015 ![Financial News logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030513.jpg?itok=TpE2KEls)>

Excerpt from [Financial News](http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2015-08-13/us-infrastructure-financing-needs-to-change-track) -- "...US public infrastructure (highways, bridges, airports and so on) is paid for by user taxes and tolls that politicians are loath to raise, or by direct government grants that are equally unpopular. Thus it is continually under-depreciated, under-maintained, and under-financed."

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