spending that the private sector would not take on... The Internet would never...private telephone companies (dial up) would never...SpaceX would not...on

spending that the private sector would not take on... The Internet would never...private telephone companies (dial up) would never...SpaceX would not...only something like a national government Note your continual use of "only" and "never". You made this a black and white question. I'll freely admit that the government can build infrastructure; you should admit that history shows that independent individuals can as well. Then the question returns to the relative cost-efficiency of each provider, which was my original point. And that's an empirical question: could these services be rendered for less than $5.62 trillion in taxes per year?