Over the next two weeks, three billion people will watch the Summer Olympics in Paris. And French taxpayers will spend more than $11-billion to host what is little more than a two-week party and receive little-to-no net benefit.
Like with past such events around the world, purpose-built infrastructure will either be disassembled or retained for decades at tremendous cost in regular maintenance and upkeep for the occasional event that will use it but otherwise sit idle.
