Should roads be free to drive on? Clean water, primary education, or firefighting be free for public use? I don’t think there are black or white answers to the

Should roads be free to drive on? Clean water, primary education, or firefighting be free for public use? I don’t think there are black or white answers to these questions. There are toll roads and freeways, for-profit but regulated water utilities, “free” education and firefighting funded through taxes. But all of these, like MDN, are public goods [1] where some pooling of resources makes sense. It’s not so much wanting them to be free as it is wanting shared low cost options. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)