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ManusJustus said:

HappySqurriel said:

ManusJustus said:

The most important public goods that the government provides are defense, justics, and transportation.  Its not a perfect system, but its the only system that works, and without the government providing them we simply would not have them. 

Can you imagine our entire transportation infrastructure being dirt roads?  That is the best the private market would provide us, as only the government can provide such a public good.  We would literally go back to the Dark Ages, which was the last time Western civilization moved away from government in favor of privitization.

Being that many cities and states/provinces already contract a large portion of the construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure to private companies without any negative consequences, why would contracting out the production and maintenance of road infrastructure lead to humans devolving to the dark ages?

I'm not clear about your argument.

Taxation is the only way to provide funding for roads.  Currently, Transportation Departments and City Governments decide what roads need to be built or maintained and what they can afford, then they either design the project in house or contract a design agency to design the project, then they bid the project and reward it to the lowest bidder In most cases its the lowest bidder anyway, the two states that I'm familiar with have a law requiring the lowest bidder to win the project and the other has a reward system where contractors who aren't the lowest bidder can still win the project if they are within a small percentage of the lowest bid and they fulfil more 'desired parameters' than the lowest bidder, such as being in state, mandatory random drug testing, non-discriminatory policies, etc.

I think his point is that you are either

A) Argueing that something will send everything back to the darkages that is already happenign

or

B) That you are argueing a strawman point irrelvent to the thread.  Based on your reply, it seems to be B.