[scan59]

Can you imagine granting ANY company an 80-year contract, much less a foreign one? How can they possibly imagine this is to the tax payer's benefit?

[GingisK]

Can you imagine granting ANY company an 80-year contract...

This is the Red Chinese model of government. I kid you not.

[knife6375]

Gov. Mitch Daniels-R leased our toll road 80/90 to a foreign country for eighty years. As of three weeks ago I have heard his name mentioned for the 2012 presidential primary.

[Alberta's Child]

I predict that none of these companies will even come close to seeing the end of these long-term contracts to lease/maintain highways.

What these foreign companies haven't figured out is this: a lawsuit-happy nation that implicitly encourages illegal immigration and goes out of its way to provide all public amenities to them is a terrible place to have any legal responsibility for a highway.

Just think about the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis a couple of years ago. If that road had been leased by a private company, it would have been out of business by now under the weight of all the lawsuits.

[Tax Government]

Arguably, a state assembly may not be empowered by its constitution to commit state resources for a period longer than it is elected to serve.