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Roads are payed for already by ticket fines, and freight/shipping deliveries. So, not tax money.

http://www.dailypaul.com/268271/but-who-would-pave-the-roads

There's many different solutions, but of course you are a liberal who prefers to be spoon fed. It's as if you automatically assumed the government solution is the best option sigh

    Roads are payed for already by ticket fines,
    and freight/shipping deliveries. 
What?

Almost all of the federal money for road construction and maintenance comes through the Federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF). It's a standard PayGo operation, but the entirety of their budget comes from taxes. Primarily the $0.184/gallon tax on gasoline and a $0.244/gallon tax on diesel. The remainder from an additional tax on tires and on the sales of industrial vehicles.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/fifahiwy/fifahi05.htm

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/onh2p10.htm

From your link:

The only thing that will be different is that we will have MANY different roads that will compete with each other.

LOL

To be fair, they might also compete by having wider lanes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq3w7RVnvc [Seinfeld - The Pothole]

of course I am! Because otherwise you'd have to use logic. Why don't you do me a favor then and "spoon feed" me an argument not full of generic tropes and relevant to the issue?

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