“Private enterprise beats government at almost everything. Management of critical infrastructure is not one of them.”
You’re just a Socialist. LOL. Be ready for the tolling shills (you know, the ones that think you can have 10 companies each running parallel toll roads between city pairs, so that you can have ‘competition’ on a level playing field). If you don’t support handing MONOPOLY CONTROL of our highways to foreign interests, you are a SOCIALIST - at least by their ‘reasoning’.
Bottom line: 90% (or more) of the value of a highway is the right-of-way, it is NOT the concrete - that part is very cheap (usually less than 2 cents per mile, in most areas). The reason tolls average 20 cents to $1.00 per mile for ‘private’ highways is that they control the right-of-way...and can charge market rates for it (along with charging for the tolling systems, bond holders, sending money to Australia, government/executive revolving door types, cronies, and lobbyists).
We might as well hand over all our airways to United (I don’t know, maybe for $100 Billion) - let them charge what they want for 50 years, and then call it ‘free market’ and ‘capitalism’, because it would meet the definition promoted by several people here.
>>You’re just a Socialist. LOL. Be ready for the tolling shills (you know, the ones that think you can have 10 companies each running parallel toll roads between city pairs, so that you can have ‘competition’ on a level playing field). If you don’t support handing MONOPOLY CONTROL of our highways to foreign interests, you are a SOCIALIST - at least by their ‘reasoning’.
LOL. Well said!