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Gt8ful said:
Would you rather pay tolls or have a commons?
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I would rather pay tolls.
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Gr8ful said:
If our roads are privatized imagine the problems to freedom
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The only problem with liberty on privatized roads is that your liberty to travel is dictated by your liberty to earn. Is it wrong to live WITHIN YOUR MEANS?
Nothing in life is free, except sorrow, pain, denial, suffering and starvation. Everything else requires labor.
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Gr8ful said:
Its bad enough that the oil companies are sucking up our natural resources without paying the lawful royalties due. That oil has been pirated. If the roads are also pirated away from us we will not have any liberty at all.
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You are kidding yourself. Roads are far more pirated now than you care to admit. What laws was/is your state forced to adopt in order to maintain its federal highway funds? Is it not a threat against your states livelihood to hold that money that is owned by the people, as leverage against your accepting tyrannical laws? You are paying for protection, by paying those who are attempting to extort you. That makes no sense.
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Gr8ful said:
You guys think we will be more free when everything is privatized?
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I am not an extremist. Everything being privatized would be extreme. The state and fed have LIMITED constitutional power, and that is what I want them to respect. You are not focusing on the point.
90% of the things not privatized now, would be better, but there is a 10% or so group of things that require collective funding and management.
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Gr8ful said:
You wont have any say-so in which crony will own your roads.
Walmartization is going to destroy America.
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Corporatism is a very real threat, and it is only allowed due to the means you have adopted as an answer Dan.