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Lamplighter · 08-09-2010, 07:12 PM

I might be able to agree in this particular instance, but private businesses are rarely willing to compete with governmental entities on an even footing, so non-compete clauses abound in contracts.
Even physicians bemoan the patients that are "pulled out of their practices" by the same medical school and hospital where they received their own training !

Also, $1 / year for the right of way on the median was a major governmental give-away after doing all the prior bonding, development, engineering, land procurement and basic construction of the existing freeways. If a Libertarian principle is to hold true, that private enterprise would have had to do all that work at it's own expense.

All this is beside the point of toll-roads and congestion-pricing.
Toll roads are not new, but private ownership certainly is.
Sports stadiums are good examples of how the public can be beaten up for the benefit of private owners.

08-09-2010, 07:12 PM	#1
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	I might be able to agree in this particular instance, but private businesses are rarely willing to compete with governmental entities on an even footing, so non-compete clauses abound in contracts. Even physicians bemoan the patients that are "pulled out of their practices" by the same medical school and hospital where they received their own training ! Also, $1 / year for the right of way on the median was a major governmental give-away after doing all the prior bonding, development, engineering, land procurement and basic construction of the existing freeways. If a Libertarian principle is to hold true, that private enterprise would have had to do all that work at it's own expense. All this is beside the point of toll-roads and congestion-pricing. Toll roads are not new, but private ownership certainly is. Sports stadiums are good examples of how the public can be beaten up for the benefit of private owners.