cspan caller--Indiana proposal to sell toll roads to Argentia or other

[rodeodance]

private comapany==I have no idea if this is true.


http://forums.sbtinfo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=317

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has proposed raising the tolls and entering a long-term lease with a private company to operate the Indiana Toll Road. He says the $2.8 billion or more he hopes a private company would pay for a 50-year or longer lease is the only way to pay for many needed road projects in the state, including upgrading U.S. 31 between South Bend and Indianapolis to Interstate standards.

Opponents of the plan say we shouldn't take 50 years or more worth of lease payments and spend them in 10 years or less. They also question the wisdom of giving over operation of state assets like the Toll Road to private companies. Some northern Indiana critics have also questioned the distribution of the revenue from such a lease, arguing more of it should stay in northern Indiana projects.

Share your thoughts on this issue...

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. What's to share? This would have never happened under a Democratically

controlled congress and executive branch. It's the free market push from the right that is allowing this to go through. It's the reason why there were so many bogus attacks on Clinton in the 90s. It made him pliable. Clinton only started going Centrist when we lost the Democratic congress.

[Cassandra]

2. Someone from Indiana...

mentioned this on WJ a few days ago. When are people going to wake up to the realization that companies don't want to produce things anymore; it's just easier to rape the taxpayers? Republicans specialize in this type of arrangement.

[Benhurst]

3. Instead of a long-term lease,

why doesn't Gov. Daniels just give them Indiana?

:sarcasm:

[D_Master]

4. Living in Indiana...

I can see the Daniels administration isn't that much different from the Bush on efrom which he came. We have already had the Daylight savings issue crammed down our throat w/out a vote, now we're supposed to come up with a plan. And when the Dem. lead county to the north wanted to go to central time, the state overturned the county vote and went w/ what the Rep. lead county next to it wanted (eastern). They did this because both counties said before the vote that they wanted to be on the same time. Basically no one knows what's going to happen and time switches here in about 6 weeks, so I guess we'll find out real soon. And then with this toll road thing it sounds good in the short term with the $$$ coming in for its sale but he's selling it for 75 yrs. and I have a tough time thinking it wouldn't raise about $2 billion over a 75 yr. time span.

[Benhurst]

5. I hope the time switch goes smoothly. I was in Georgia when

they went on daylight time and remember the commercials in the theaters foretelling the ruination of the state's agriculture as a consequence of the extra hour's worth of daylight.

Fortunately the crops proved surprisingly resilient and the extra hour of daylight is no longer seen as a problem in the Broiler State.

:silly:

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[D_Master]

6. Similar here...

Gov. Daniels paraded around for months talking about how we needed this b/c out of state businesses couldn't do bussiness with Indiana companies b/c they didn't know what time we were on since we didn't switch like everyone else. Which is a bunch of crap, like who's not gonna do business and shipping with a company b/c of what time they are on? Now it could be time by county, but my guess is that if it doesn't end up like they want it, they will force counties to go to a certain time zone, my guess is EST.