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Re:New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child ... by KetoManx64 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @12:43PM (#45184637)
You wouldn't have to if the government didn't own the roads. Plenty of examples of this, private companies creating their own roads and charging people a small fee to use them so they can maintain them.

Wouldn't be that hard give people a little device that tracks the roads they use and charges them $0.05 per mile that they drive and then have the company be a co-op that's owned by the people living in that town.

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Re:New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child ... by xboxnolifes on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:05PM (#45187080)
Perfect way to introduce new national road middlemen: the tracking device manufacturer, the road geolabeling software company, and each road owner.

A local co-op would never last. If it could, we'd see far more local co-ops.

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Re:New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child ... by KetoManx64 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:36PM (#45189581)
It's hard to compete against multinational conglomerates that get tax cuts and tax breaks left and right, but they do exist, eh: REI, Ace Hardware, Land O' Lakes.
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