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”.
michigan probably has great roads. or at least constant work on their roads. and it’s still an economic wasteland.
For you conspiracy theorists out there, Cintra was also the company Gov. Perry had enlisted to build the Trans-Texas Corridor which now appears dead in the water.