Quote from: FiatKiller on June 27, 2013, 04:57:45 PM

Quote from: Elwar on June 27, 2013, 04:51:24 PM

Quote from: FiatKiller on June 27, 2013, 04:44:58 PM

You cannot run society (building roads, etc.) without some taxes.

Why not?

If for no other reason than payment to the contractor. He needs $125K per 2 miles, or some such amount. How do you pay him?? Or do we each make 5 feet of the road with some of us not being physically able to??

Privatize the roads. We have been stuck with the same road technology for over 100 years. It is time to release the monopoly. Too many people die on the government roads and the whole road concept has stagnated.

When the government turned AT&T into a monopoly in the 1930s that pretty much stalled telephone technology. Why did they create a monopoly? Same reasons people give for public roads...everyone needs access to such an important technology, poor people wouldn't be able to have phone service without it, too many phone companies would mean you could use one service but not another. They lifted the monopoly in the 1980s and things have improved dramatically ever since. The same needs to be done with roads. End the government monopoly.