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Old 06-08-2016, 07:32 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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If people took this attitude towards roads and airports, we'd be stuck in medieval times.
Those folks are all talk. I think it's just an excuse to be cheap because obviously they don't believe it enough to go out and something about past complain on the interwebz.
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Old 06-08-2016, 07:33 PM
 
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If people took this attitude towards roads and airports, we'd be stuck in medieval times.
Whats medieval is to think there would be no roads or airports without the govt. building them.
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So just plowing a field?

You say statist like a bad thing? You seem to have no qualms using a means of communication developed by theft. But I get it.... It's much to say you take the high road than actually do it....
Yes being a statist is awful thing. My sympathies.
Why wouldn't I take advantage of the very things my stolen money was used to create? Remove the govt monopoly and I'll take the private choice every time.
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Old 06-08-2016, 07:47 PM
 
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Whats medieval is to think there would be no roads or airports without the govt. building them.
Ever since the romans, the state has built roads. Name a single society where the private sector funded and constructed the majority of public roads.
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Old 06-08-2016, 07:48 PM
 
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Ever since the romans, the state has built roads. Name a single society where the private sector funded and constructed the majority of public roads.
That doesn't address what I said in any way.
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Old 06-08-2016, 07:55 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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Whats medieval is to think there would be no roads or airports without the govt. building them.


Yes being a statist is awful thing. My sympathies.
Why wouldn't I take advantage of the very things my stolen money was used to create? Remove the govt monopoly and I'll take the private choice every time.
So you are just a hypocrite then?
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Old 06-08-2016, 08:27 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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If people took this attitude towards roads and airports, we'd be stuck in medieval times.
No, we wouldn't. Lots of private sources can build better roads and airports than we have today.

Maybe you haven't flown to O'Hare or Laguardia lately. Those are third world government controlled airports.
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Old 06-08-2016, 08:31 PM
 
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Mmm pork tastes good
More fat of the old block.
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Old 06-08-2016, 08:58 PM
 
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You say statist like a bad thing?
Because it is.
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Old 06-08-2016, 09:03 PM
 
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Because it is.
Nah son.
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Old 06-08-2016, 09:05 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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No, we wouldn't. Lots of private sources can build better roads and airports than we have today.

Maybe you haven't flown to O'Hare or Laguardia lately. Those are third world government controlled airports.
The problem is raising capital for such large projects and then extrapolate that across the country. Government bonds are much cheaper.
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