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To: Willie Green
These highway "privatization" scams should be banned.

Privately built, privately maintained, privately owned. If a commuter considers his time worth the cost of the tolls, that is his decision. If a commuter wants to forgo the cost, there are several public roads available.

This of course is the exact opposite that you preach. You demand that everyone pay for the 'train', if we want to use it or not and then subsidize it's existence forever.

Sorry, can't afford to subsidize anything else. I'm currently contributing to the continued existence of the leaches of our society already.

10 posted on 07/29/2010 4:15:29 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: 11Bush

There is no “free market” for private industry owning our roads and charging tolls to citizens who are forced to use those roads. This is a kooky libertarian idea that has to die.


11 posted on 07/29/2010 4:21:15 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: 11Bush

“Privately built, privately maintained, privately owned”

On land seized through eminent domain.If they can use gov tactics to build their “private” roads, they should be under gov restrictions as to what they charge. If on the other hand, these private companies buy land on the open market at the going rate, let them charge what they want


18 posted on 07/29/2010 5:28:40 PM PDT by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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