[dljordan]

" God forbid we privatize tollway operation! It's socialism!"

They're trying to pull a slick one here in Colorado, it's called the Super-Slab. Using an old mining law a consortium of Americans scalawags and Arab investors want to use Imminent Domain to grab a 200 mile long by 12 mile wide (they're trying for 20) stretch of property. They want to evict people whose families homesteaded the property back in the 1800's. Using the government to grab land is socialism. The point on this little land grab is a man named Ray Wells, who I'm surprised is still walking around.

[1rudeboy]

Small points, but a government grabbing land to build a road is not socialism. Nor is having a private developer build it in exchange for a lease that permits toll-collecting. I know nothing of your situation in Colorado. Almost everything hinges on whether the road is actually necessary, I think.