Toll Road Profits From Saudi/Blackstone Deal Go Back To Them. Trump Selling Off Commons. [View all]
Get ready for toll roads with "no compete" clauses under the Saudi investment deal. Besides weapons the Saudis will get money from the toll roads and bridges and maybe even water and sewer departments in the end. And corporations like Blackstone will get some of the take. Plus no "no compete" clauses also mean that public infrastructure cannot be improved or built that competes with resulting toll roads and bridges.
And workers building this infrastructure will NOT be able to afford these roads, bridges, et al. Imagine having to cross the ONLY bridge or taking the ONLY road at $15 or $20 a pop. You could spend hundreds of dollars in tolls just to go to work. And the jobs created will be low wage non union jobs in construction trades.
In time our national highway system will be a series of tolls to go cross country. And almost all of that profit will go to some overseas country or corporation and NOT the US. And these deals will have 99 year leases on them.