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Kirsten Gillibrand: “If private companies were allowed to take over highways, is it fair to assume that those companies would not be doing so…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2017
If private companies were allowed to take over highways, is it fair to assume that those companies would not be doing so purely as a public service but would be seeking to make a profit off operation of those highways?
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Gillibrand questions the motives behind highway privatization.

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