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To: DMaA who wrote (135771)	8/31/2005 2:08:36 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) of 793896

A lot of that infrastructure was built in a time when the distribution of free capital was much narrower. Today's wealth distribution is wider than, say the 30s or 40s, and more of that building probably could be turned over privately. I think the context of the time is an important limiting factor of explanation. At any rate, doesn't it overstate the case to suggest that the individual concepts of public roads, and believing in freedom are at odds with one another? "People who believe in freedom are at a slight disadvantage in these debates. Collectivists [not speaking about you personally] can point with pride to the interstates, and cities made possible by government works. But I can’t point to the works that COULD have been built with the capital expended on the interstates. If the people who devoted their working lives to build the interstates had devoted their energy and talent elsewhere, what would they have built?"

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