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freshwest

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7. The corporatist state Grover wants won't have any public property. All privately owned by cronies.
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 04:35 PM
Oct 2012

The name of the act is an oxymoron, as the people will not be informed of the private details. It will be NYOB as soon as it's passed. And they will call this lowering taxes, but the toll is going to be a tax. But it will be paid to private companies. And the increase in cost will keep those without enough money from using it.

We have just had a state owned bridge that was turned into a toll, and the cost is so high working people are being forced to drive many more miles to use another one to cross a large lake. The expensive neighborhood they formerly drove through on the state highway wanted it that way, didn't want people driving there.

But the roads and bridge were built with tax payer money. The state is supposed to get the toll for the bridge. Other road projects are being stopped by Republicans unless they are tolls. Much of what is public, sends money into private hands through levies and sales taxes, like sports stadium.

Presumably in the public good, but we've had some that the public specifically rejected that got ramrodded through for the benefit of the private owners in several instances.

His alleged grounds are what they have always been, to reduce the size of government to the size it can be drowned in a bathtub. At the same time the plutocrats will no longer be pestered by the people. The government represents the people against the plutocracy.

They want that barrier taken away to get control among their friends. When the government is eliminated, all sense of fair play and equality will be erased. They can discriminate and charge whatever they want. They do not represent those who need infrastructure for upward mobility. The GOP does not want the lower groups to move out of their position of subservience, as it's good for their business model.

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