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To: AnimalLover

Leaving aside questions about the SPP, why would any foreign company be given the right to collect tolls on this highway for FIFTY years?


4 posted on 08/27/2006 1:43:29 AM PDT by ruination
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To: ruination
Leaving aside questions about the SPP, why would any foreign company be given the right to collect tolls on this highway for FIFTY years?

Because they are building the highway. If not that many people use the highway, then the company, and not the local government, loses money.

15 posted on 08/27/2006 4:46:12 AM PDT by Koblenz (Holland: a very tolerant country. Until someone shoots you on a public street in broad daylight...)
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To: ruination
why would any foreign company be given the right to collect tolls on this highway for FIFTY years?

They weren't given the right. They bought the right.

32 posted on 08/27/2006 8:21:41 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
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To: ruination
Because they pay to build and operate it system. the state can take that right away if they fail to live up to the agreements and the state can build more highways and fix roads and bridges that gas taxes wont ever cover.
126 posted on 08/28/2006 1:32:55 PM PDT by HamiltonFan (Ignorance is bliss for the MSM)
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