Note: More signs of the autocratic mindset of this President and his administration? Privatizing public assets benefits who? The people of this country? What other nations privatize things like this? Like paying tolls to drive on roads? Cross bridges? What happens when the companies owning/managing those assets goes out of business? Who picks up the tab? Get informed, folks.
The following article by Michael Laris was posted on the Washington Post website May 23, 2017:
The Trump administration, determined to overhaul and modernize the nation’s infrastructure, is drafting plans to privatize some public assets such as airports, bridges, highway rest stops and other facilities, according to top officials and advisers.
In his proposed budget released Tuesday, President Trump called for spending $200 billion over 10 years to “incentivize” private, state and local spending on infrastructure. Continue reading “Trump advisers call for privatizing some public assets to build new infrastructure”