XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2011-02-17, Ashton Crusher  wrote:   
      
   > The free market can't produce FREE roads but they could make   
   > standardized ones.  The biggest problem I see with free market roads   
   > is if they are truly free market then you have lost your freedom to   
   > travel "freely" in the non-economic sense.  Ultimately you would not   
   > be able to leave your house without paying for the privilege.  The   
   > libertarians call that the perfect world.   
      
   As opposed to government roads that are created with magic and instead   
   of resources taken from the population? Or is it that you want to   
   arrange things by the political process so that those people over there   
   pay for the roads while you get to use them for free?   
      
   As to freedom to travel, how exactly do we have that by the political   
   process? The govenment has its armed muscle collect tribute on the   
   roads. The government has them set up checkpoints. Government enjoys   
   making people submit to it in order to travel. Travel was reduced from   
   a right to a government granted privilege. What's better? Being a   
   paying customer or subjected to stops and possibly searches by armed   
   men who's performance reviews depend on how much money they bring in   
   and/or how many arrests they make?   
      
      
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