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To: bad company

Please explain how this is pork, since not only 100% of the road's construction and maintenance costs will be paid by a private firm (who will recoup the cost via tolls), but $1.2 billion will be paid to the state by the firm for the franchise rights. The state will spend less than $50 million in initial studies and related costs. So the next cost to taxpayers is -$1.15 billion, meaning the state makes a $1.15 billion dollar profit on a $50 million investment.


8 posted on 03/07/2006 9:57:08 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Funny how in this case the best thing that the government can do is: as little as possible.


11 posted on 03/07/2006 10:04:51 AM PST by stormlead
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Please explain how this is pork, since not only 100% of the road's construction and maintenance costs will be paid by a private firm (who will recoup the cost via tolls)

Who pays the tolls, the tooth fairy?

Paying for roads at toll booths is a bad way to fund roads. The public pays for them one way or another, and handing a virtual monopoy for travel between city A and city B to a private company is a bad idea.

Private toll roads were the norm in Colonial America. We got rid of them for a reason.

15 posted on 03/07/2006 10:42:40 AM PST by narby (Evolution is the new "third rail" in American politics)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

I certainly hope that TTC-35 will take more than 15 per cent of the traffic off of I-35. I've read about how much of a b*tch that road is.


16 posted on 03/07/2006 10:42:59 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Now is the time for all good customes agents in Tiajunna to come to the aid of their stuned beebers!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Didn't exactly see that there. Just sounds like they have some money for a road with no specific objective in the first place.


18 posted on 03/07/2006 11:02:18 AM PST by bad company ("Any damned fool can write a plan. It's the execution that gets you all screwed up." - James F. Hol.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat; bad company
Please explain how this is pork....

Hmmmm. Was he perhaps referring to LTOWM ... "liberals, the other white meat?"

27 posted on 03/07/2006 2:05:45 PM PST by r9etb
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