Quote from: NotLambchop on November 08, 2014, 09:29:44 PM

Quote from: TheButterZone on November 08, 2014, 08:35:21 PM

Yes, everyone, let's ignore that roads used to be funded and constructed by businesses, so you could patronize them without having to change your flat tires.

ORLY? Other than access roads? When/where was this? Be specific.

Sources for people who won't feign ignorance after reading them:

Daniel Klein and John Majewski, "America's Toll Roads Heritage" in Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads, ed. Gabriel Roth (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2006). See also Daniel B. Klein and John Majewski, "Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America," February 5, 2010

Rees Jeffreys, The King's Highway (London: Batchworth Press, 1949)

Daniel B. Klein and John Majewski, "Economy, Community, and Law: The Turnpike Movement in New York, 1797-1845," in Law and Society Review 26 (1992)

Quote from: worle1bm on November 08, 2014, 09:37:24 PM

Quote from: TheButterZone on November 08, 2014, 08:54:43 PM

Quote from: worle1bm on November 08, 2014, 08:45:59 PM

Quote from: TheButterZone on November 08, 2014, 08:35:21 PM

Yes, everyone, let's ignore that roads used to be funded and constructed by businesses, so you could patronize them without having to change your flat tires.
Yes, everyone, let's ignore the existence of volunteer fire/medic departments, and that you sometimes get billed, in addition to the taxes you already pay, if you use "the government's" public safety employees/contractors.
Yes, everyone, let's ignore the hundreds of trash companies that bill you for trash pickup, if you don't want to pay to drive your waste directly into the dump.

Yes, everyone, let's ignore that the vast majority of infrastructure projects were and are publicly funded.

... after government usurped the liberty and ultimate authority of private entities to fund infrastructure themselves (without corporate-government bribery).

<3 Stockholm syndrome.

So you, or a private company, are no longer allowed to fund infrastructure?

Not without bribery (and bribery by every other name).

<3 defending the indefensible.