[Flame Of Liberty]

Originally Posted by Phaneuf3

your ticket only pays for the operation and maintenance of the bus and the driver's salary. if it were to cover roads as well, it would have to be taxed much in the same way gas is taxed to hell.

Well, as it should work, price of your ticket should cover all expenses of the bus operator. Again, if you buy groceries in a supermarket, you don’t really care how the supermarket covers building maintenance costs, do you? But you sure as hell aren’t forced to fork up cash for such costs.

Originally Posted by Phaneuf3

How in the hell do you think a decent system of sidewalks/paths can be planned, built and maintained by a private company. The property issues alone blow this idea right outta the water (same goes for privitizing the building of roads). That doesn't even cover how a company is goign to fund this project and charge users.

What property issues blow this idea right outta the water? Private highways/roads/streets/etc. were/are built in the past/present.

As for sidewalks, one possibility is that they would be built as "added value" to other buildings, for example like parking lots now - supermarket offers a free parking lot for you. Why - because he wants you in the store. Same way they would be forced to build sidewalks to get you in stores, office buildings, stadiums, restaurants and what not. Residential sidewalks would be built by developers and sold along with the house. That is one example. What’s so strange about it?

Originally Posted by Phaneuf3

and yes, i agree with you, i'd like to have absolutely minimal taxes and have private citizens/companies pay for this. however what you're talking about isn't a simple government policy issue, its a complete tear down and rebuild of our entire government and social structure. basically you can either move or create a seperate thread to discuss this issue and try to get people on your side and lead the revolution to overthrow our culture.

Why, I just want to have a simple discussion, I am not making plans for a worldwide revolution.

BTW as for our culture - welfare state has been first put into place by Bismarck in the late 19th century and heavily it was put into place after WWII. I would not call this short period of collectivism our culture which is thousands (2 if you have judeo-christian culture in mind)years old. It’s more of an anomaly.