Corporate welfare where the "recipient" pays the state $1.2 billion and spends $6 billion in private capital. That's funny!!
Maybe the poster meant "reverse corporate welfare?"
1. There are very few large businesses that would pass up the opportunity to pay a sovereign to confiscate property that would otherwise never be sold in the open market. The State is using eminent domain to take from U.S. citizens and give to a foreign corporation. Calling it corporate welfare is being kind.
2. The primary beneficiary of this travesty is big business...obtaining a government subsidized transportation route. If it was economically feasible to build this route in the private sector, big business would buy up the land without government involvement and create the toll road.
3. Then there are the leeches who will line politicos pockets to ensure that toll road exits just happen to be at points where they own adjacent land for development.
Yes. It is corporate welfare on multiple levels. And using the power of the State to trample individual rights is not a conservative idea.