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To: Doughboy who wrote (38918)	9/21/2000 3:22:05 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You will notice, I did not say "the market has spoken". I only mention the failure of passenger lines to pay for themselves to emphasize that people are not using what they have. I said, "This is a democracy. People wanted highways, not mass transit." I am aware that there is a sense in which the individual driver is subsidized by the provision of roadways (Adam Smith considered such infrastructure to be a legitimate expense of government). I do not know much about the financing, though. Some gas taxes do go to highway improvement. There are other ways they are financed too, for example, turnpikes. For all I know, they have been paid for.........