Re: Heads-up: Possible Televisual Recovery

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:31:29 +0000 (UTC), David Gersic
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On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:06:54 -0700, Robert Uhl <eadmund42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Who is going to maintain the road they aren't living next to?

All roads run next to land; all land has an owner.

Excelent. You've just reduced the problem to the previous problem, which
has already been solved. Locally, the city government owns the strip of
land between the sidewalks and the street.

I've heard something like $1-2 million per mile, so let's divide $2
million by 52.8: $37,879. In other words, a fraction of the value of
the typical home. And it will last for at the least a decade and a
half, probably more.

How, exactly, the does this help the average homeowner? You're not
suggesting that road building will be any cheaper, nor any better.
Maintenance of this privately built road is to be handled by the
government you're trying to get rid of, so there will be tax and
infrastructure overhead regardless of who builds it. Plus more inspector
types to make sure it was built right in the first place.

Somwhere there's this thing that isn't, apparently, a government, that
can manage to decide on and levy large fines.

I'm not an anarchist; I don't want to eliminate the government. I just
want to eliminate the all-encompassing State wherever possible and
feasible.

Well, if you could do me a favour in your planning: try to make whatever
you come up with suck less than what I have now in some way. Either
make it work better, or cost less.

Commerce will never stop; there's too much coin to be made from it. And
goods shouldn't travel by truck over large distances anyway: they should
travel by train over any distance from intercity or larger, and should
only be loaded onto trucks to go from the rail depot to the store.

I agree, and a good rail subsidy might help encourage this.

That is fine for existing rail lines. For other commerce we should bring
back the airship.

http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/cargolifter/
http://www.millenniumairship.com/SkyFreighterSpecification.htm

No need to build new roads or rail lines, just landing pads.

Kevin
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