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> disingenuous and a bad faith argument. Whoaaa assumptions! Picking the airport and downtown are the only places on government property I occasionally park,
by landemva 3y ago
> disingenuous and a bad faith argument.
Whoaaa assumptions!
Picking the airport and downtown are the only places on government property I occasionally park, and I pay per use for those. I rarely park on small roads because I have nothing to do there.
Roads can be private - owned by the person with the adjoining house. I live in a town in which the "roads" are private property with reciprocal easements to all other property owners in the town. It's awesome. There are no problems from people storing their RVs and trailers and junk on the street, because it gets towed for trespass. The town top budget item for our taxes is to hire companies to maintain what appear to be roads. This keeps the town answering to the people, because if they don't maintain the "roads" the people will reduce the taxes to about zero.
I'm serious, on what government property do I park for free?
- StockHuman 3y agoYou are not everyone in the country; indeed, you are a minority in that respect. Refuting a general argument through anecdote is not fair to what you’re discussing.
- JambalayaJim 3y agoThe vast majority of roads in cities are public property, not private. You’re making a disingenuous argument using your small town as an example.
- landemva 3y agoMaybe govt owning transport infrastructure is not working or is not affordable. We grow up with what is around us, and that is what we know. The Walmart parking lot is private and not paid by my taxes. There are solutions other than govt ownership, and some lead to more private property with allowances for public use. If a coffee shop wants parking, maybe they should have their own parking spots rather than relying on govt to pave and maintain the parking spots on the street in front of the coffee shop.