[Jonty30]

Not all jobs are close to where you can live.

I don’t believe in public healthcare, but many on the board do. Roads are just one of those things that I believe should be paid out of the common tax base. It’s always been that way, right from the days of the Forefathers.

[Irenic]

In Tombee portrait of a cotton planter( from the journal of Thomas B. Chaplin 1822-1890] In South Carolina the property owners were responsible for the roads, they rotated amongst themselves to level, fill and keep the roads. It has been years since I read it so the details are fuzzy.

[Alberta's Child]

This country was founded at a time when people either walked or rode horses wherever they traveled. There were no paved roads, so the cost of building and maintain roads was minimal. Even then, the role of the federal government in building and maintaining roads was limited to the “post roads” described in the Constitution.

If you have the government assume the responsibility of something that has limited capacity and unlimited demand, it will be used to excess and will eventually turn to crap. That’s what our transportation infrastructure has become. It’s a classic manifestation of the principle in economics known as “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Take a look at it and let me know what you think of it.