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“Why should we have to pay to use a payment system? It’s like paying to use a street,” Hockett asked at a press conference announcing the proposal.

I'm probably ambivalent about a "public" banking system, but this comment seems to ignore that we quite literally do pay for using streets in the form of taxes (indirect) and tolls (direct).

Don't we pay for streets though, indirectly through municipal taxes or what not ?

That is exactly what my comment stated.

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