Private Toll Roads vs. Higher Tolls.

Editor,

Mitch Daniels needs to brush up on his arithmetic. Add a private toll road owner's profit to what Indiana should be charging at the toll booth, and the toll a driver pays is greater than what Indiana should be charging at the toll booth. Surely drivers understand that if they don't pay the state what it should be charging them, they will wind up paying a private company more.

Mr. Daniels needs to brush up on his salesmanship also. Even in the something-for-nothing world of slave wages that a private toll road owner might decide to pay its employees, taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill for toll collectors' food stamps, emergency room care (because they have no health insurance), and other subsidies neoliberal predators have not yet stolen from the working poor.