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“Highways should be privatized with a elimination of gas taxes”

I LIKE IT!!!!

Sell off ALL of their now-freeways. California could likely get the Trillion or so dollars needed to fully fund CALPERS and with that, can go back to nice, juicy, pensions for for their state workers while running up another Trillion in liabilities.

Meanwhile the fact that drivers will have to pay 20 cents to 1 dollar per mile (market rate, based on other privatization of highways) to travel on what are now freeways will not affect me!!! - as I live in Texas. Only the losers in California will have to pay through the teeth for the next 75 years (typical length of time that toll road operators are given to ‘operate’ their roads, without any regulation on tolling levels), and they DESERVE IT, having voted Democrat in such numbers.

Same as Mitch Daniels did with the Indiana Toll Road (although smaller scale there) - got him a HUGE glob of money to hand out to his friends...and made him very popular in the state, since the people paying the now-doubled tolling levels generally don’t live in the state (the highway only runs through the northern edge of Indiana). Everyone wins with the doubled tolls!!!!

Can’t see any downside - unless you’re one of the DEPLORABLES that actually uses those roads (rather than flies over them in private jets).