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To: 11Bush

There is no “free market” for private industry owning our roads and charging tolls to citizens who are forced to use those roads. This is a kooky libertarian idea that has to die.


11 posted on 07/29/2010 4:21:15 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson
There is no “free market” for private industry owning our roads and charging tolls to citizens who are forced to use those roads. This is a kooky libertarian idea that has to die.

Who is 'forcing' anyone to use this road?

Why do you think that someone or some company can not build, maintain, and if there is a market, charge to use the facility?

Don't want to pay for the use, take any other route that you desire. Roads leading into DC are plentiful.

13 posted on 07/29/2010 4:32:11 PM PDT by 11Bush
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Who forced you to use a road from point A. to point B. What, are their Japanese Imperial Marines with bayonets against your back?

Or did YOU CHOSE to live at A. and work at B.? Those are pretty big choices, that you made.

It’s a big country. I suspect less than 0.0002 percent of the roads are toll roads. You choosing to use two-ten thousands of a percent of road possibilities isn’t any type of ‘force’.


29 posted on 07/30/2010 2:51:58 AM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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