By Daniel Schulman with James Ridgeway
The deal to privatize the Toll Road had been almost a year in the making. Proponents celebrated it as a no-pain, all-gain way to off-load maintenance expenses and mobilize new highway-building funds without raising taxes. Opponents lambasted it as a major turn toward handing the nation’s common property over to private firms, and at fire-sale prices to boot.
This “privatization” of public roads and other infrastructure is happening all over the country, and if anyone you know doesn’t have the facts, here’s a great article to pass along to them.
