[Huskrrrr]

Uh, correction. The Taxpayer will foot the bill.

[kiryandil]

see my post #3

[MrRelevant]

Shouldnt it be the shipping company? Now that Joe is involved we get a union job so 4 years from now the bridge should be up and running lol.

[logi_cal869]

Uh, correction:

Taxpayers, their children and grandchildren will pay the bill.

[Vaduz]

Bingo you broke his code.

[whitney69]

“The Taxpayer will foot the bill.”

I wonder what the insurance company is going to do with the premiums the container ship paid to them.

wy69

[alancarp]

In 1980, Florida's Sunshine Skyway bridge was taken down by a ship. The replacement cost was $230 million, with $105 million of that coming from the Federal Highway Administration and the balance coming from the state of Florida -- funded by tolls on the new bridge:

"Drivers making the trek in a standard two-axle vehicle can expect to pay $1.75 in cash. Three-axle vehicles now pay $3.50, four-axle vehicles pay $5.25, and five-axle vehicles pay $7" [discounted by roughly a third with the Sun Pass].

The tolls for the Key bridge?? 2-axle, $6.00 ; 3-axle, $12.00 ; 4-axle, $18.00 ; 5-axle, $36.00. Yikes.

[VTenigma]

I think Lloyds of London might be in for a big part of the costs.

[frank ballenger]

Yes.

“We” will foot the bill with “our” money. Hopefully brought in saddlebags on a unicorn floating here on a magic carpet.

Or, gouged out of working taxpayers’ life savings as they and their children and grandchildren face enormous debt.

Biden: Just charge it.

[Labyrinthos]

Correction, Lloyd’s of London (or equivalent), the logistics company, and the owner of the ship.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Politicians view taxpayers and the government as two completely separate things. Once they get your money, it is then THEIR money to piss away as they want.