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Originally Posted by BBQMan
...Turn over the existing Interstate Highway system to private contractors to maintain and improve the roads on an ongoing basis. They get a fair return on their investment and we get good roads....
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This sounds like a good idea, but there's too much real evidence to the contrary. Try looking at how the public likes the long-term lease of the Chicago Skyway or the Indiana Toll Road. See what Chicagoans have to say about the leasing of all the parking meters in the city. Is everyone around the country happy with the cost and level of service of private garbage collection? There are whole towns going broke with infrastructure projects "arranged" by the private sector.
Read the following article and view the video on Sandy Springs, Georgia, a town that tried to privatize almost everything. It has turned out to be a disaster. The investment bankers and private service providers have made out swell. The residents? Nowhere near as good.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_852466.html