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.
Since you are excusing not only big government but also the actions of the most infamous dictatorship of the last century, then it’s your credibility in question. Invoking the Founding Fathers with respect to big government is an outrage, with all due respect—they certainly understood that growing government by engaging in public works projects that could have been achieved by the private sector is neither good nor right.
Everything we have could have been achieved without any government invention—everything. That’s not “throwing out the baby with the bath water”, because government intervention is the unnecessary factor here and not the “baby”.