“you have to be a democrat from south bend.”
No, actually I’m an American from Texas. We have a governor who was trying to pull the same stunt - STATEWIDE. Basically sell off our highways (including freeways - as in I-10) to private companies for unrestricted tolling. We knew it was a SCAM and it was going to WRECK our state, so we (mostly Republicans on the outskirts of Houston), fortunately (and barely), managed to stop him (at least for now).
And sorry, you may wish to live in the fantasy of a ‘lease’, but when that ‘lease’ doesn’t end until my kids are dead, it is a SALE as far as I’m concerned.
Those crafty Texan conservatives . . . insisting that their roads be operated and maintained in the least efficient and most expensive way possible, by their government.
a sale indicates ownership without restrictions....they have plenty of restrictions, rules, regulations, expectations, responsibilities etc.....and they can't take it out of the state(without permission)