“broke” texas was named the top state in the country for business. nit-picking on roads is missing the point.
Yeah, if Texas is “broke” then states like California and New York should be “deceased”.
Highway taxes have been largely collected by the feds and redistributed by them. Lately, Texas has been told they’ve been in the pipeline for public highway funds in the latter half of the decade and Texas is saying “we can’t wait that long” so they have been looking at a number of alternatives to get more highways built faster and that has included privately-financed toll roads.
Texas is far better off financially than most states of their size. That they haven’t chosen to invest in highways with state tax money is no sign that they are “broke”.
Maybe they would not be broke if they did not have to provide for the illegals.
Willie’s just lettin’ off steam. He’s never seen private investment in infrastructure that he didn’t hate.