London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline

Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by tomrod on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:38PM (#23288883)

Visa holders, undocumented immigrants, and more can use the roads. People without jobs, teenagers, etc. can use the roads. Your point is made without evidence and without observational adherence to reality as I've experienced it.

Do you have a source you can direct me to showing me the requirement that any publicly (taxpayer) funded road is only usable by taxpayers?

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by pdonis on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:11AM (#23289011)

> the requirement that any publicly (taxpayer) funded road is only usable by taxpayers?

I never stated any such requirement.

What I did say was that taxpayers have a right to use public roads. That is not the same as saying anyone else is prohibited from using them. The latter is a matter of how we choose to make public policy.

Our current public policy is that anyone is, in practice, allowed to use public roads, whether they are taxpayers or not. We could choose a different, more restrictive public policy regarding non-taxpayers, but we don't. (That is probably, as I said before, because it's not worth the cost to check everyone using public roads to see their taxpayer status.)

But we cannot, at least not based on the legal principle I stated, choose a public policy that does not allow taxpayers to use public roads, since they have a right to do so.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by tomrod on Sunday May 24, 2020 @01:51AM (#23289440)

So no source on the claim that one must be a taxpayer to use (i.e. exercise the right to be on) public roads?

If the right is not enumerated, then it probably isn't restricted to taxpayers. Right of mobility is a natural right.

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