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- From: eastmer@yang.earlham.edu
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- Subject: Re: YYYEEEEESSSSSSS!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.161856.20506@yang.earlham.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:18:56 GMT
- References: <ZwC=9hB@engin.umich.edu> <1992Nov13.193441.8685@cs.ucla.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.131133.13260@genie.slhs.udel.edu>, starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
- > In article <24007@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> tucker@shiva.UUCP (George Tucker) writes:
- > }A toll bridge will benefit the owner if the economic justification for
- > }it is sound. Not all facilities can be financed this way, of course,
- > }but user fees are certainly an improvement on general taxation.
- >
- > What "infrastructure" can't be financed by tolls? Roads and bridges can.
- >
- So the investers would need an monitary insentive to build these bridges
- and roads. Unless you have some better idea this means toll booths, and
- assuming that no one person has the resourse or will to biuld all the
- roads in an area this means many different toll booths. Great we can just
- put up toll booths instead of stop signs. And in staed of in taking 5
- min. to get to the store it will take half an hour after you stop to pay
- all the tolls. How about residential streets, are you going to put one of
- your great private sector toll booths at the end of every driveway before
- you get on one of your private sector roads. At what point would it be
- O.K. with you for a community to gather money throughout the population to
- finance something that is beneficial to everyone?(i.e. taxes)
-
- Also what keeps one person or group of people from buying all the roads
- into or out of a certain area and charging just under the price or air
- fare for transportation? True this would colapse quickly as people get
- angry but there are alot of people who would love to make a quick buck and
- get out and screw everyone else.
-
- You aren't going to hear me talk about "Good Government"(about on a par
- with the boogy man) but there is a need for some established system of
- order. In my own little Utopian fantasy there are precious few laws and
- microscopic goverment, but we live in a grossly imperfect world and some
- things just don't work.
-
- I believe the sole purpose of government is to protect and expand the
- freedom of the individual. I'll never have this government, but I am
- going to keep trying to get it.
-
- Eric
-
- Never Never Land is not real, but is sure looks good on paper.
-