[BobL]

"The Trans-Texas Corridor will be the first highway system in the state and the only highway system that will allow landowners who have the corridor running through their land to collect royalties."

So now us poor hapless drivers will have to pay royalties to land owners, in addition to paying for condos on the French Riviera (for Cintra investors), in addition to paying the gas tax (that doesn't even get used for these roads), in addition to paying for the driver identification and tracking system (for collecting tolls), in addition to...

Thanks Governor Perry, we appreciate your conservatism.

NOT!

[Ben Ficklin]

Same song, 95th verse.

[anymouse]

The last resort of a despirate politician is to bribe the opposition with phoney claims that they will profit from a boondoggle. Gov. Perry's Democrat roots are showing. Promise anything to get them to agree to sell out their future.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I thought ya'll were arguing that these landowners weren't going to get fair compensation, and how unfair it was that a private company might profit off that land while the landholder wouldn't get any of that profit. So now that it turns out the landowners will have the option of sharing in the profit, you're bitching about it?

Nice try at playing both sides of the argument.