[rurgan]

So you believe that government can do better than capitalism in managing roads. Yeah look at the horrible job they've done with government schools, public housing (government projects), EPA, TSA). These corrupt marxist, bureaucratic bastards couldn't run any of these things even if they really tried and some do but still can't . there is nothing in the Constitution that says government has the right to do any of the thousands of things they are doing like government schools. Just one example : here in this city , the city morons decided to build 18 dog parks at a cost of 25 million $ when the roads are terrible beyond belief. there are millions of examples of government insanity like this. I think private roads would work much better than government roads. Anyway they can't even build them or repair them as they pay private construction companies to do this. but the more privatization and less regulation the better, at all levels of government

It's just an abomination to me that people actually trust government to do things such as schools, roads , housing , hospitals etc.

Government doesn't work, is inherently corrupt as these marxist, nanny state , government bastards are unaccountable and corrupt marxist bastards.

Look in a private business you are accountable to the bottome line: so that means that you have to produce someone is willing to pay hard earned money for and that you have to be efficient, and please your customers. So you are accountable to your customers and to the bottom line. further more with competition , only the ones that are good succeed. there is no competition in government as they dictate to you what to do. Government bureaucrats are not accountable to the people. Try to tell the TSA what to do next time you are in an airport. If you have a problem with a bank, or restaurant , whatever you can call the manager and sometimes they listen to you but try that with the EPA, IRS, or TSA or the coming bloomberg soda police.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

As you say, in a private business, you are accountable to the bottom line. It may be the case that private-sector competition would lead to fantastic roads, in areas where people were willing and able to pay for them (although, given how costly roads are to build and maintain, it’s unlikely there would be very much competition - you’d end up with a monopoly/oligopoly situation in most areas).

The problem is that, if there is no customer base willing and able to pay for a particular stretch of road, a private business simply will not pay for that stretch of road. There are plenty of low population-density areas that have relatively lightly-trafficked roads. It would never benefit a company’s bottom line to build such a road. How would these roads ever get built or maintained under your approach?