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To: HPilot who wrote (625614)	8/23/2011 1:50:54 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577293

Of course, you're wrong.

To: HPilot who wrote (625614)	8/23/2011 2:05:17 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1577293

As silly as it sounds, I bet if we asked private companies to build the roads with their own money so that they can make a profit on tolls, we would be paying less for them because we would not have to pay tax's for road construction and maintenance. I don't think it is silly at all. It is a complicated problem, of course -- mostly in two areas: capital formation and condemnation proceedings. In the 1800s, however, there WERE a good number of private toll roads in some areas of the country, so it isn't a lunatic idea. Private enterprise would be properly motivated to get the job done, and some of these decades-long construction projects could probably be handled in a year or two. Government is inherently lousy at everything.