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You spent the first half of this thread trying to "prove" that you never use interstate highways and spent the remainder kicking and screaming about how horrible you think it is that we build them. Upon that one may accurately summarize your position as solidly anti-highway, so that part stands. WRT Israel, about the only other place I've seen you around this forum is on threads defending the so-called Palestinians and other mohammedan radicals.

1) I do rarely use interstate highways. I don't think its horrible that they are built - designing them is approximately 1/2 of my companies annual revenue.

2) I do think expressways should be tolled, and we should move away from the gas tax. I don't see any reason why they couldn't be sold to private industry to be operated as for-profit companies.

3) I think Palestinians possess the same natural rights as any other person, including the right to their life, property, homes, self-expression, freedom of movement, etc. (Same right possessed by us and by Israelis.) Apparently, believing the universality of natural rights and upholding the Geneva Conventions on war makes me an anti-semite according to the Israel boosters. I personally think Islam is a backwards religion that the world would be better off without, and Jihadi's should be strangled with pig intestines.

1) I do rarely use interstate highways. I don't think its horrible that they are built

Yet you express nothing but complaints about the fact that people want to build them. Don't backtrack now after spending an entire thread bashing highways.

2) I do think expressways should be tolled, and we should move away from the gas tax.

That's a legitimate position for you to advocate. It has little relevance to the unethical campaign contributions and contract peddling on Metrorail though.

As I said, that's a discussion for another time and place. I will simply note for the time being though that the palestinians, as well as most mohammedans in that region, do not and will not respect those same rights for others around them if allowed greater self governance than they current exhibit. The israelis restrict their movement for a reason and that reason is the undeniable and violent hostility they exhibit to Israel when unrestricted.