羅富齊救經濟新招 - 收費道路

在美國道路上駕駛 高盛想要你逐哩付費
Goldman Sachs Wants You to Pay-by-the-Mile to Drive on U.S. Roadways By Mark Anderson

According to an independent British newspaper editor, in the not-so-distant future, English drivers will be charged based upon the number of miles they drive, as is being done step-by-step in America.
據一位英國的獨立報紙編輯，在不太遙遠的將來，英國司機將依據他們駕駛的里程被收費，如它在美國正在一步一步進行中。
On January 12, AFP interviewed Mike Robinson, the editor of the UK Column, a liberty-minded newspaper not unlike AMERICAN FREE PRESS.
1月12日，法新社採訪了英國專欄的編輯麥克羅賓遜，它是一份自由思維的報刋，不像美國自由新聞。

“Road charging,” as it is called in England, is widespread, he told AFP, as fiber optic cable has been laid along most English roads to help track vehicle travel by the mile so drivers can be charged.
“道路收費，”正如它在英格蘭所叫，是普遍的，他告訴法新社說。因為光纖電纜已敷設在大多數英格蘭道路，以協助追踪車輛旅行哩數，因此司機可以被收取費用。
“It has been on the European Union agenda for quite a long time,” he added.
“這已是在歐盟的議呈頗長時間，”他補充。

His comments came amid recent news of a radical plan to raise $200 billion by privatizing “the motorway network,” as Brits call it. The plan was presented to the three main political parties by NM Rothschild, the influential investment bank, British news sources say.
他的言論正值最近一個激進計劃的消息，私有化“高速公路網絡”以籌慕二萬億美元，如英國人稱呼它；該計劃由有影響力的投資銀行NM羅富齊提交給三個主要政黨，英國的消息人士說。
The Rothschild bank, called “an architect of several privatizations,” reportedly made its pitch in the weeks running up to the summer recess back on July 21, 2009. Bankers told leading politicians that the sale of the roads overseen by the [public] Highways Agency—all motorways and most “big trunk roads”—could help revive battered public finances. This is the same story Americans have been told.

True to form, toll-road companies and “infrastructure funds” would compete to operate and maintain stretches of the British toll network.

In one version of this scheme, the British government would pay for upkeep through a system of “shadow” tolls. A more radical and less politically acceptable option would be for private companies to charge motorists directly through privately owned toll booths or electronic card readers.

And how did U.S. politicians get the idea that privatizing roads was an acceptable future? Two words: Goldman Sachs, according to noted Texas columnist Ed Wallace.

“Yes, large Wall Street investment banks, led by Goldman, started advising states across the nation on how to raise fast money by diverting the most necessary publicly owned assets—roads—into private ownership,” wrote Wallace. “You have to admit, it’s brilliant, because it’s a forced and guaranteed market: Americans can’t get out of driving.”

And as Daniel Schulman and James Ridgeway wrote in a scathing article, “The Highwaymen,” in January 2007, “Many similar deals are now on the horizon, and MIG and Cintra are often part of them. So is Goldman Sachs, the huge Wall Street firm that has played a remarkable role advising states on how to structure privatization deals—even while positioning itself to invest in the toll road market.”

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