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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 5008478, member: 3850"] A Classis misunderstanding... You are confusing this with the letting of bonds...which has been the way. And still is the way for financing infrastructure. It is signing on a partner to grow revenue...That partner will share in any revenue growth and will act as an advisor in how to grow revenue. [I]After all, they do have an incentive to see increases in a department’s revenue: They earn a percentage on any new annual growth. Over a 10- to 20-year period, that percentage decreases from, perhaps, 22% in the first few years to 2% by its end, as the firm meets its original principal investment. Weatherford describes this as taking a “revenue royalty.” If there is no growth, the firm does not take a cut. “They are not mandated to pay us back the money we give them,” Weatherford said.[/I] [/QUOTE]