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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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