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Our entire transportation system will be toll bridges, roads and tunnels owned by private corporations and foreign investors. Meanwhile public roads will be prohibited from competing. Water and sewer systems will be the same with high fees gong to even foreign countries. Your water will be even owned by companies in places like China and the Middle East.
I will bet the even our national parks will be sold to foreign corporations.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)I mean, he is already planning this.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)We already have one toll road in Colorado where the money goes to a foreign corporation. And part of the deal does not allow public road improvement where it competes with the toll road.
brush
(53,840 posts)as they try to sell off our infrastructure to their rich donors, even foreign ones, who will then pocket the tolls from the roads, bridges and tunnels that we all will have to use everyday and can't avoid.
Instead of trickle down, it'll be trickle up from our pockets literally to theirs.
It will be a dystopian hell with us getting poorer by the day after coughing up tolls we previously haven't had to pay.
And remember, they will raise the tolls every couple of years too.
That's one reason why my wife and I left New York in 2006. The tolls to cross most major bridges then was $5.50.
It's now $8.50and that's one way.
This is what we're facing if these crooks/traitors/sell out repugs get their way.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and other foreign countries?