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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by ClumsyPilot on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:16AM (#27218312)
Building railways roads and essential national infrastructure... Coersion?
Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by JgiuX76h on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:21AM (#27218346)
Yes. Taxing people to pay for those things requires coercion. Preventing other people from providing completing services requires coercion.
Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by ClumsyPilot on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:21AM (#27219725)
I have lives in 3 coubtries and never seen a government preventing anyone from building private roads, railways, etc. Somehow essential infrastructure is not a popular business investment

Also by that logic stopping people from dueling or stabbing each-other on the street is coersion . Stopping coersion by mafia is coersion. How is this a usefull concept?

Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by cies on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:00AM (#27218598)
Tax could befall only businesses, which are coerced anyway (as you need a license to start a business). Then the businesses increase prices for their products, for which consumers ultimately pay (uncoerced).
Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by modo_mario on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:04AM (#27220054)
So how are they prevented from building competing tracks and more importantly how would one build competing tracks if allowed?