Foreign Companies Buy U.S. Roads, Bridges
In other words the republicans are privatizing the roadways American tax payers paid for.
Soon we'll pay tolls to turn the corner. That's Free market for ya.
Fucking republicans would sell their grandmas to slavers. And many democrats, such as the Clintonian ones, would help them.
WASHINGTON -- Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.
On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas officials decided to let a Spanish-American partnership build and run a toll road from Austin to Seguin for 50 years.
Few people know that the tolls from the U.S. side of the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, go to a subsidiary of an Australian company -- which also owns a bridge in Alabama.
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Soon we'll pay tolls to turn the corner. That's Free market for ya.
Fucking republicans would sell their grandmas to slavers. And many democrats, such as the Clintonian ones, would help them.
WASHINGTON -- Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.
On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas officials decided to let a Spanish-American partnership build and run a toll road from Austin to Seguin for 50 years.
Few people know that the tolls from the U.S. side of the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, go to a subsidiary of an Australian company -- which also owns a bridge in Alabama.
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