I didn't build my house either, a contractor did that. It's still MY house, since I'm the one who paid for it.
Strawman. I never questioned the fact that the feds own their highways. I said that the idea that only the government can build roads is false because they don't even build them in the first place.
They also don't generate the resources to build the roads. It's all done in the private sector except some tax collector and his police backup enforce a tax with threat of imprisonment (where you are raped in the ass) or death if you don't pay up.
The roads argument is ultimately based on ideology. It is one which says that only the government can solve problems and it is a absurd ideology because people solve problems all the time, unless there is a monopoly which is exactly what is our public roads system.
The fact that you point to a monopoly and say that because the government is the only one doing it and therefore it supports the idea that justifies "Universal Broadband" is very silly assertion.
That's because it's not just a matter of 1, 2, 3 and put a road down.
You missed my point entirely. I'm saying that government-built roads cost a lot more than if the private sector were to build the road on its own. This is because the government doesn't have much incentive to be efficient with costs, because the money is easy come easy go. They often have more incentive to waste money than to be efficient with it because accountants can make it look like the government is creating jobs, which is actually false because government jobs are parasitic on actual job and wealth creation.
You want to know why your roads suck so badly in the US? Because the US doesn't tax people enough to maintain better ones.
You might be right but where is your data to support that? Just because you note high taxes doesn't mean we here aren't paying through the nose for our highways. Show me the data. Much of the US government is funded by deficit spending so we here don't pay much directly in taxes. I believe our government gets funding in three major ways:
Income Taxes
Deficit spending
Monetized spending (an currency inflation, a hidden tax)
This is how our federal government paid for the multi trillion dollar Iraq war. It was all borrowed. They continue to bail out the banks here and right now the banks are buying government bonds as a 'you scratch my back I'll scratch yours' arrangement. It's an extremely complicated money nightmare over here right now.
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Perpetual debt is slavery.