Businesses were built BEFORE roads were built. People that made things or raised things decided to PAY TAXES for paved roads and bridges so they could get their goods to market. So you liberals got it wrong again. My great grandfather had a country store before the roads were paved. People would come to him to buy things. It was a general store that sold everything from sugar and flour, which came in barrels and had to be weighed, to nails, bridles, any type of things a farmer would need. People had to travel on dry days to a country store or a nearby town to sell their goods and buy things manufactured. They finally decided to add tax to gasoline to make paved roads. Oh, Henry Ford suggested this. So businesses were built BEFORE roads. Roads in subdivisions today are PAID FOR by the developers, then once they meet approvals are taken over by the city or county and maintained by them. IT WAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT INITIALLY that built the roads. Only thing the government does is maintain them. Granted once roads started being paved, FEDERAL tax on gasoline was added to build the US highway system before WWII, then the interstate system afterwards. IT WAS PRIVATE people, industry, and business, who paid the taxes for the roads to be built. Money for Federal expenditures doesn't come from the themselves (unless they deficit spend out of thin air, which causes inflation) but from taxes off private business and individuals.
Oh, and where I live, ALL the utilities were built and installed by private companies, NOT government, INCLUDING the road in front of my house, by the development company who bought the land, paid a surveyor to divide the land into lots, and surveyed the location of the road, the road was built by a private contractor for the developer, the developer paid for the water and sewer to be installed and tied into the city system. Power, gas, phone, and TV cable were all installed by private companies, (because they wanted to get customers). The street once passing inspection was given to the city for maintenance. NO govenment money except maintenance, like fixing potholes and resurfacing AFTER it was GIVEN to the city.
Most roads IN AMERICAN history were just dirt wagon roads hacked out of the wilderness and used by everyone. Common law in most states say that if the road is used by the PUBLIC for more than 7 years it becomes a county, city, or state road. Then taxes were raised to pay for paving.
You liberals need to get your history and facts straight, people built business first, then roads and railroads were built to get goods to market. Railroads were and are privately owned tracks. They were built to get farm goods, timber, etc to markets were factories were built and goods processed into finished products. Most factories were originally built along creeks, rivers, where water could be dammed up for power to make flour, weave cloth, or turn lathes for machining metal. Govenment didn't build these factories, or work the farms. Most cities originally were built along rivers because the river was the road.
Rivers were the first mass means of transportation in America, the Mississippi river system could go from Pittsburg to New Orleans. From Minneapolis to New Orleans. I don't know how far up the Missouri system they could travel. No government started all these cities or business along these rivers. Even in Alabama where I live, Tuskaloosa, Montgomery, Selma, to Mobile were all river cities, as well as up the Tennessee River. Later railroads were built to connect a lot of the cities where rivers weren't They were all privately owned. It wasn't until we got California that the government gave land to railroad companies to build the transcontinenal railroads. The west was explored, traveled over by wagon train years before the railroads came. They came to get to the new markets.
Modern government is a parasite on the capitalist system. Sometimes it provides a benefit, sometimes it overburdens the capitalist system until it becomes like the Soviet Union, too big, and it falls under it's own weight. Most of the problems today can all be traced to some type of government meddling in the system to get things the way whoever is in power wants it to be. We wouldn't have had the housing crisis which caused this recession, if it weren't for he govenment changing the rules banks loan money in 1998 when Clinton was in office. Arms were twisted when banks refused to make loans to poor or minorities to buy a home. So they were made to loan the money. They came up with stupid plans like ARMS, no interest for 5 years, etc. When the rates went up and the interest had to start being paid, people couldn't pay it and forclosures started and snowballed. This was BOTH political parties fault, not just Bush. Clinton and the Republican congress came up with this hair brained skeem which put is in this situation. We had no health care problem UNTIL we signed FREE TRADE agreements, and MOST FAVORED NATION trading status with certain countries. Like Ross Perot said, a giant sucking sound took our manufacturing overseas, and along with it good paying jobs with health care benefits. This happend under CLINTON, not Bush. Bush just went along with it, but spent too much money on wars without taxes to support them. Bombing would have done just as good a job, if not better, and cost a whole lot less money. Not just slap on the wrist bombing, but serious destroy infrastructure, military installations, roads bridges, railroads or whatever to get their attention. It worked in Serbia, why not Iraq? Afganistan could have been put into the dark ages too.
