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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Road Walker who wrote (6098)3/13/2009 12:51:05 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
Yes, I'd support both of those.

Re. the interstate highway system, yes, the building of roadways is a reasonable government function. Its pretty difficult to have all our roads privately owned unless we gave the private parties that would build and own the roadways the power to condemn land for the roadway and would be able to charge monopolists rates for use in many cases, things we wouldn't want.

*Though railroads are privately owned, the railroad system isn't as extensive as our highway and roadway system, there is competition and regulation.

Re. the trancontinental railroad, private companies built the RR's spurred by land grants. The government owned the land that made up the transcontintental RR's right of way (before it granted such land to the RR's) and it had an extremely low, often zero, market value w/o a RR system in place.

BTW the interstate highway system and the intercontinental RR's have a national security purpose as well as a commercial one.
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