| Kasz216 said: I'm not in graduate school, but I know a lot of graduates.
Anyone who says roads aren't Rivalrous has never been caught downtown in a big city during rush hour. Technology is pushing roads more and more towards being private goods. |
You know people in graduate school? Thats very prestigious and automatically justifies all of your opinions.
I also like that you somehow attacked my argument where I define simple economic terms, then turn around and show that you don't understand simple economic terms. There are many more factors than rivalrous and excludability that go into determining if a good is a public good and should be provided by the government. For instance, government provided roads have benefits that cannot be provided by or taken into account by the private market, such as increase in economic activity and cheaper deliverty costs.
Its more economically efficient for the government to collect funding from taxes to provide roads than it is to pay trillions of dollars to put electronic toll booths across the country and electronic readers in every car. If any country were to undertake such a fool-hardy decision, it would be economic suicide.
Lets do more math, though you don't seem to get that either:
There are 150 million cars in America, put a $20 electronic reader (guess) on every one and thats $3,000,000,000. Now put electronic toll booths on every intersection, they would cost upwards of $100,000 a piece and lets guess that there are a million intersections, thats $1,000,000,000,000. Now we need a private company and hundreds of thousands of employees to staff and maintain this new infrastructure, they get paid an average of $50,000 a year and thats well over $100,000,000,000.
Congratulations, you just destroyed your country's economy by spending trillions of dollars on unnecessary spending when you could have allocated resources elsewhere in the economy.
