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RE: Gov't Failed to Help, So Dad Builds 5 Mile Road BY HIMSELF, So His Kids Can Go To School
One of the most oft-repeated arguments presented in favor of the necessity of taxation is that of roads.
"But who would build the roads?"
This question has been asked repeatedly by those who defend taxation as a means to facilitate human travel.
And the answer is to wait until some dude gets so fed up with not having a road he builds one himself?
no, the answer is stop thinking government builds those roads. They don't. You do, I do, you neighbor does. Government is the middle man, skimming off the top!
I was under the impression that third party contractors build roads at a significant markup while cops got loads of overtime pay sitting in their cars at construction sites but other states don't have a police union as powerful as ours and don't require that. Contractors who hire our neighbors, or who perhaps live next door, depending on where you live. I don't know about middle man, the government does not exactly turn a profit, they run up debt in our name. the middle man is in it to make money, the government takes money by force and redistributes it, essentially a protection racket. A necessary one, I don't really want to have to build my own road every time I want to go somewhere. What if some people who lived along the route disagreed with his decision to build a road there or to widen the road?