I'll concur that talk of moochers and me-firsters is bullpucky. But, the danger I'm concerned with (and the reason for me going on and on about the relationshi

I'll concur that talk of moochers and me-firsters is bullpucky. But, the danger I'm concerned with (and the reason for me going on and on about the relationship of entrepreneurship and subsidized infrastructure) is that the "you didn't build that" rhetoric, even though it falsely characterizes the relationship, is being used to justify the confiscation of my personal treasure for their infrastructure projects. That rhetoric is telling me that I need their infrastructure for business success while in reality their infrastructure needs me in order to exist. An alternative to subsidized infrastructure is private infrastructure. For example, my great-grandfather was a self-taught engineer who built a small Pennsylvanian town's first sewer and water system. He literally designed and built the water pumps and clay pipe molds and other technologies himself and he and his employees laid the lines and hooked-up customers themselves. The town council later bought him out and turned it into a public utility they fund to this day through taxes. (I imagine it was an easy sell. "Guten tag! We have water inside the house now. Do you want that too?" "Yes! How much will you charge me?" "Not much, but I will need to bury some pipes through your yard.") Note: And when I say self-taught I am being quite literal. His parents were immigrants from Germany and he learned to read from the Bible at home. He bought books on advanced mathematics and engineering principles from his savings as a farm-hand on his uncle's cattle farm. I have a few of them that were passed-down. One of his inch-thick pocket books on engineering from 1890 covers the same material that about half of my college courses did. I wish I had gotten it before University because it makes me highly suspicious of the quality and necessity of modern education. But, that's another topic.