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.
I remember when conservatives were generally in favor of privatizing non-essential governmental functions, and not fighting for the "right" to increase their tax burden.
What is being given to a foreign corporation?
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.
LOL!
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.
Will those be American leeches? Americans who will benefit from this road? In addition to the Americans who benefit from using the road? Don't tell jpsb.
And using the power of the State to trample individual rights is not a conservative idea.
Who's rights are being trampled?