Re:NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024...
by wallace_f on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:40PM
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There do exist a lot of private roads. If govt did not build them for free, there would obviously be a lot more of them.
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Re:NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024...
by zaroth on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:58PM
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But the government didn’t build them for free. We collectively paid to build them, and now they more than pay for themselves. Roads are arguably the greatest investment the American taxpayer has ever made.
Building pubic-use roads without government planning, permitting, and eminent domain is frankly not going to scale, aside from the nightmare of how all the different owners of these roads would go about rent-seeking.