(serious) What might privatized infrastructure spending under President Trump look like?

To an extent they do. Do we not all get value from a healthy growing economy?

That's why we dont waste resources on government run roads, taxing and regulating the poor and middle class into poverty. Better that they are earnings taxable profits for their use.

Do we not all require agricultural goods to be delivered?

Not from the far corners of the country, being transported in on governennt run roads. More economic for that logistic waste to be included in the cost.

I may never spend any time in my life driving on I-95, but I know it is an extremely important corridor for transportation of goods and services.

Dont worry, im sure you can afford a tax cut, and pay an extra dime for products transported on it. People will think better about the things they waste their money on.

Furthermore, you clearly have no idea what actually drives the costs of health care or what the costs actually are in other countries. Perhaps you should do some research before you spew off bullshit like that. I agree, there are a lot of unnecessary regulations that do add to cost - for instance the extremely strict FDA process for approval and patent laws, but you haven't given us any reason to believe that any purely free market alternative even exists in the universe.

There is no such thing as purely free market anything. It's all a matter of degrees. The more the taxes, laws and regulations are abolished that are driving up costs, the more affordable and higher quality those products and services become. The world is full of doctors, dentists and specialists who would love to work in the USA, at a far lower cost than what is tyrannizing the American people, causing many to suffer and die horrible deaths, and there is a big iron curtian wall of red tape keeping them from having access to the things they need to take care of their health.

I implore you to give me one example of a country that doesn't have some form of regulation in health insurance and care or some form of government control over health costs.

Falling off the cliff of ad absurdum much?

Finally, give me one example of anyone who has been "taxed and regulated into poverty".

The USA has the highest government run health care costs, the highest government run education costs, and the highest incarceration rate on the planet. Take your prick. Anyone could get sick and lose everything, from all of the government run regulations that are jacking up the cost of health care, we can see entire generations enslaved into student loan debt, and anyone can be going about their regular lives, caught by any of the many and growing regulations that have the USA with the highest incarceration raate on the planet, they lose everything from either defending themselves from any of the many charges that are getting thrown around these days, or they lose everything from sitting in jail and then get dumped out into the streets after serving their time.

You do realize that regressive fees (in your argument fees like tolls) are much worse than taxes, right? Roads are not a good that is subject to supply and demand.

Again, have you seen holiday traffic? Some arguably necessary things do travel on those roads, but everything else traveling on them is completely optional for the most part. If people want to use those roads, they should pay more for it. This will incentivize people to think more about burning the planet into a fiery inferno, and save resources from being wasted.

In most cases there are no other options and you have to pay a monopoly whatever price they want for you to use them.

No you can carpool, take the bus, walk, ride a bike, help people work of some of those soaring rates of obesity, or not take that Thursday night drive to the bar. You still going to keep arguing that every mile driven on those roads is necessary?

If you're richer and can afford to live in a city close to your work, you won't have to pay at all while your employees spend hundreds a year paying someone else just to get to work to make you richer.

Life is a lot more dynamic than you are making out. People have a lot more flexibility to not drive around so much, buy more economic cars, car pool, cut back on the drinking, smoking, drugs, junk food, weekend trips to the casino. Toll roads open up the opportunity for a tax cut, so peopel would even be financially better off driving less and with lower taxes at the same time.

There are no examples of people being taxed into poverty,

Speaking in absolutes?

but there are millions of examples of people being taken advantage of by unregulated markets and forced into poverty and homelessness.

Homelessness? You mean like soaring property taxes, much of it to pay for the soaring costs of government run schools, that are making it increasingly unaffordable for people to have a place to live?

Your arguments are what I'd expect from a 12 year old who thinks they're too smart for their friends. Pathetic.

Ok.

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