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You would think so but no. Roads and highways belong to the State or Federal government (basically whoever built the damn thing). States and the Federal govern
by SllX 3y ago
You would think so but no. Roads and highways belong to the State or Federal government (basically whoever built the damn thing).
States and the Federal government are managed by an Elected government and their appointees, and are empowered to levy taxes.
Taxpayers foot the bill, and some taxpayers are even citizens with the right to vote in elections.
The whole “X belongs to the taxpayer” is crap rhetoric you and many many many Americans were raised on, but which does not accurately convey anything about your relationship with the roads and highways you use. We pay for them, we elect the people who are charged with managing the entity that does own them and employs people to build and maintain them, but we do not own them.
- smt88 3y agoYeah, again. I'm not talking about the legal framework, I'm not poorly educated on this subject as you condescendingly claim, and nothing you wrote affects my point. I'm saying that we pay for the roads, and the entities that legally own/maintain/control the roads are supposed to be under the control of our elected representatives. We own the roads in the sense that they are public spaces that we pay for. There is a moral obligation to transparency when benefitting from public resources, whether or not there's a legal one.