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Sovereignty - Complete independence and self-government.
Free Enterprise - an economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.
OK-SAFE’s Position on Public Private Partnerships - Updated 7-27-2012 Public-Private Partnerships, (PPP’s or P3’s), and initiatives and legislation supporting them, are a prominent trend in State and Federal government. They are often supported by Big Government advocates as “innovative financing” and by Crony Capitalism advocates as “free market solutions.” However, they are a direct threat to the free market and are an incentive for corporatists to engage in unproductive ventures and monopolists to exclude competitors. PPP’s are the source of the sort of political corruption that undermines the rule of law and the sort of central planning that is at the heart of the anti-capitalist mentality. Everyone who supports U.S. Free Enterprise should be on their guard against supporters of PPP’s.
"The public should not assume that the private sector will act in the public interest in its development of a contract with the government or in its management of toll roads. A PPP’s structure should ensure that public and private interests align."
OK-SAFE Position Paper on Public-Private Partnerships - Government Sanctioned Monopolies PPPs, whether between relatively small public and private entities, or large units of government partnered with domestic or international consortiums, have created a dangerous system: an un-level playing field for U.S. businesses, centralized planning and the concentration of powers, and insulation from Public accountability. This is a system of insiders and outsiders, of government selected winners and losers.
American roads are the hottest commodity in the international marketplace. State and local governments are falling all over themselves to sell off highways, bridges, and all sorts of other revenue-producing infrastructure, to international financiers who are eager to snap up structures Americans have already paid for, and for which they continue to pay maintenance costs through endless taxes.
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties. The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road.
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