[BitWielder1]

The argument is of course that roads are a shared resource and how else would you pay for them.
After all, everyone benefits. Even those who don't drive benefits from goods and services delivered by road.
Tolls and Fuel taxes work, as long as the gov't does not loot it for other things.
Government could easily contract private companies to do the actual construction and maintenance work, wherever they don't do so already.
(Someone in the business enlighten us please?)

...federal gov't should be responsible for national defense and nothing else.

Agree. But even that could be contracted to a professional force.

[ShadowAce]

Agreed to all of that. In fact, a lot of it is contracted out. The point, though, is that it is still federally funded.