Should roads be privitized?

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Probably not, but I would support repealing the gas tax and making all roads toll roads.

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The problem is there isn't enough land to put all these competition roads. Otherwise I would strongly favor the idea.

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Why would they look like that?

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Here's a question: what exactly is so wrong about our roads that needs fixing? It seems to me that we're attempting to fix something that isn't broken.

There's a difference between fixing something that isn't broken and improving something that isn't broken.

Different companies could have different speed limits, fees, qualifications for driving, etc.

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Dean demonstrates his inability to follow a conversation again. I stated earlier that I oppose this idea for the very reason you bring up:

The problem is there isn't enough land to put all these competing roads. Otherwise I would strongly favor the idea.

Gabu was asking about why we would want to do this anyway. I answered him.

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Are you somehow trying to claim that this is a good thing? It would make things ridiculously complicated if roads kept changing speed limits imposed, tolls charged, qualifications for driving required, and what have you over and over as you drove through a city.

Plus, where would people pay the tolls? Would we have a toll booth on every single strip of road in existence? Do you have any idea how much it would slow down traffic to have every single driver have to stop and pay a toll every time he drives a block?

I was thinking there would be some big name companies (the Microsoft and Time Warner's of the road industry) that would own roads throughout the country, so you could follow a constant course.

We use private roads on occasion here. It uses Smart Tag technology, so you can just drive right through.

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Gabu,

I'm not saying they'd be monopolies. I'm saying there's be a couple big name companies competing.

You subscribe and get a SmartTag. Alternately, you go the iTunes route and just have it charge you right there, though some might not like that idea.

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How do you "compete" when it comes to roads? Either you have the situation I described before where you're constantly changing fees charged, speed limits opposed, qualifications required, etc., or you have a situation where the roads in a city are divided up into chunks, with each corporation owning large chunks of roads in a city, and the citizens are still screwed because all of the roads in their neighborhood are owned by the same corporation.

Plus, couldn't one larger company just buy out the other companies that own the rest of the roads in a city? It would be essentially impossible for new competition to arise if that happened, given that you can't exactly create a startup company in the road business.

Well, like I said, the problem with this is that there isn't enough room to have competing roads going the same route. However, I'm just defending the theory.

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To his credit, though, he's a hell of a lot smarter than you, in that at least he can read properly, and note that we were talking about competing roads. But I shouldn't be so harsh; if my IQ was as low as yours, I might have trouble understanding basic English too.

In any case, you're back to lying about me again. Either that or you're a delusional idiot. Probably both.

What the hell ever made you so bitter? I mean, really, you insult EVERYBODY. Lighten up

I was attacking the ignorant fool "from" Wiconsin, not Gabu.

That's hardly the point. You insult everybody. You call everyone ignorant and stupid.

Give me a list of people I've insulted recently. I don't remember many.

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Show me where I insulted Bono or Boss Tweed?

Joke Republic and Scoonie both make asses out of themselves by being hyperpartisans. Al's reponse to everything is "No..." and "You don't understand." He never takes any time at all to explain what he means, or back up his points. I have seriously had better conversations with four year olds, so calling him one should be taken as a compliment.

New Federalist and Ilikeverin are both trolls who have insulted me several times in the past.

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No, a tongue in cheek post about Smash's partisanship does not qualify as an attack.

My post was not 'against' Bono. You're too dumb to being calling anything 'inaccurate' or 'nonsense.' Go to http://www.lewrockwell.com/ and do a search for any free market thinker that doesn't completely agree with their 100% anti-government in philosophy other than Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge.

They practically call Milton Friedman a socialist.

I talk to Bono sometimes on AIM. I was not attacking by calling him as "Austrian type," which refers to Austrian school economics.

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I'll take that as a concession that Austrian types are extreme. Not that I have a problem with extremism.