Switching to name-calling says yet more about one’s political leanings. The USA would not have even had a great deal of its initial interstate roadways if not for private turnpikes.
Take a look at the Chicago Skyway just for one. A toll road for ages, it never turned a profit until the former mayor Daley handed it over to private industry.
Plenty of initiative out there to build fully private highways, including providing private capital for same. Merely because the government gets in the way does not mean it’s not out there.
That wasn’t name calling. That was showing a lack of respect for the idea of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Sometimes the “wrong” side enacts good ideas, maybe they stole them, maybe they got them on their own. But a good thing is a good thing regardless of the source.
I don’t see roads as needing to be a profit center. Roads get built because we need roads, and since they’re listed in the constitution they are clearly a valid function of government.
There might be initiative but who’s really going to sink the trillions of dollars necessary into it? Especially starting in the 50s when Ike started the initiative. And there’s the question of if it would really be a good idea for private interests. An all toll highway system wouldn’t have increased our freedom nearly as much as the current “prepaid through taxes” system.
The founders understood there are actually good and right and proper things to be done by government.