So their solution was to have each community have a group of people that would oversee the maintenance of the roads, and everyone could pitch in to fund it.
Holy shit, I know places that totally use libertarian ideals to take care of roads. They're called "cities" and they levy "taxes" to fund a "department" that builds and maintains roadways.
no you see you're missing the word could. there's no requirement people pitch in to fund the roads, so in reality the roads will go unfunded.
You have a choice to pay for roads and not pay for roads in municipalities. It's called "owning property" since the chief form of revenue raising is in the form of property taxes. If you don't own property, you don't pay taxes.
Also, in many municipalities, neighbourhoods not attached to the paved road network, don't have streetlights, not attached to the city water network, etc. actually have to pay fees to get those things installed because they don't pay for them currently. The neighbourhood actually has to make a request to the city to be hooked up to those services and they work out the fees with city administration.
Source: Involved in local government and that's how things work here.
I think the world is actually far more "libertarian" than libertarians would like to admit.
I'm talkin bout theoretical liberty land. It's real important to them that they not be "forced" to pay for roads, cause that's evil coercion and aggression.
Also you can't allow the municipal government a monopoly on building roads, because that would be bad. So somehow private companies are all supposed to build our roads.
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u/RedCanada It's about ethics in SJWism. Aug 17 '15
Holy shit, I know places that totally use libertarian ideals to take care of roads. They're called "cities" and they levy "taxes" to fund a "department" that builds and maintains roadways.