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drunner • yesterday at 11:39 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

The point is it should be free. Public roads are free.


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tyrabound • today at 1:19 PM

I don't even know what to say to that. No wonder the western civilization is crumbling and being overrun right before our very eyes.

metaphor • today at 12:15 AM

Do you think that engineering, asphalt, machinery, and labor are bankrolled by charitable goodwill? Public roads are absolutely not free; you simply haven't thought hard enough about how the public indirectly pays for it.

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what • today at 12:01 AM

Sort of? The people using them (driving) pay significant gas taxes, plus parking permits, and other things.