“He didn’t sell the highways, he leased the toll road. The bottom 2/3 of the state would probably rather pay less in taxes than fund a road they never use.”
Doesn’t matter - a 99 year lease to me is a SALE. As to the people in south Indiana, nice try, but the people in the North pay (through gas taxes) for the southern highways too. Why do you hate the North so much, other than it being liberal union types - never mind?
But I’m not talking about paying for highways, I’m talking about the toll road. Nearly everyone in the state uses a highway near them at some point during the day/month/year. The same can’t be said for the toll road.
The toll road has never come close to paying for itself and the maintenance costs were astronomical every year. Tolls were going up one way or another because maintenance expenses keep going up.
Tell ya what, in the spirit of FRiendship, I’ll send you a kind donation for the toll road I don’t use if you’ll send me a property tax donation for a house you don’t live in. :D
(A tax, BTW, which is half what it was before Daniels.)