They think they can run the road better than the state of Indiana. Fine. Indiana wasn't going to earn $4 billion running the road itself; in fact, Indiana was losing money on the toll road.
It's a win-win. Indiana gets $4 billion it wouldn't have otherwise had and a private company gets the opportunity to make some money on the road. If it earns money, great. If it doesn't, I don't really care. Indiana got its money.
” It’s a win-win. Indiana gets $4 billion it wouldn’t have otherwise had and a private company gets the opportunity to make some money on the road. If it earns money, great. If it doesn’t, I don’t really care. Indiana got its money.”
That private company is owned and controlled by foreign interests. That means when they make money it will not be reinvested in America, it will be transferred out of America.
The money it earns will be a tax on the users of that road. Only those users don’t have say in what happens. Further there are usually stipulations on these contracts that prohibit the local governments from building new roads that might compete with the private owned toll road.
So now you are sending your money out of the US and being told by people outside the US where you can build a road.