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Topic
Board Economics
Re: why do people agree to pay taxes?
by
NotLambchop
on 08/11/2014, 22:03:44 UTC
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
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Lol, stopped right there.  Of course private and toll roads exist.  Alongside government-funded roads.  I even had my own driveway paved once.  And referencing some d00d's school papers is pretty weak--might as well say "I did a social studies report I got an A on and posted on teh web."

How about something a bit less obscure?

Edit re. second citation:



Nice trolling there, champ Roll Eyes