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Subject: Re: Re: A Question for Libertarians
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 01:23:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 01:23:18 1984
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>***** inmet:net.politics / pyuxa!gamma /  1:40 am  Nov  6, 1984
>There always seems to be a lot of talk about public and
>private roads when the topic turns to Libertarians.  I
>hope you all remember that this country once had quite a
>system of private roads.  The major reason for the building of
>public roads was that the cost of using private roads had
>become too prohibitive.  Farmers were forced to pay fees to
>use the roads and it became a big problem just to travel
>a short distance.  Is this what the Libertarians want to
>go back to?
>T. C. Wheeler
>----------

I'd be delighted to see the figures.  

Unless a price is absurdly low, there are always those who scream
that it is too high.  If the price is REALLY too high, then there's
a chance for a good profit to be made, or a great cost avoided, in this
case by a competing road (it needn't be directly competitive, but
merely usable as a substitute) or by farmers forming co-operative
roads.

This is not to say that prices are always fair -- merely that given
time and the opportunity for competition, they move in that direction.