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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 03:19 PM Feb 2018

TOLL ROADS Everywhere Is GOP Infrastructure Plan. Foreign Investment Will Dominate.

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.

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TOLL ROADS Everywhere Is GOP Infrastructure Plan. Foreign Investment Will Dominate. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2018 OP
Isn't that what they said? sarah FAILIN Feb 2018 #1
Most Certainly. Trouble Is Tolls And Fees Would Go Overseas Not Stay In US. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2018 #2
And they'll hide the hundreds-of-pages-long-bill until the last minute and try to ram it thru... brush Feb 2018 #3
so, making America great by selling it off to China NewJeffCT Feb 2018 #4
Making America great again - by selling it to foreign countries dalton99a Feb 2018 #5
Invest in EZPass. TheBlackAdder Feb 2018 #6
 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
2. Most Certainly. Trouble Is Tolls And Fees Would Go Overseas Not Stay In US.
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 03:24 PM
Feb 2018

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)
3. And they'll hide the hundreds-of-pages-long-bill until the last minute and try to ram it thru...
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 03:31 PM
Feb 2018

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 $8.50—and that's one way.

This is what we're facing if these crooks/traitors/sell out repugs get their way.

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