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Originally Posted by racc
It is funny how some people believe in capitalism and the free market yet when it comes to roads become flaming socialists. I'm not sure why you think it is fine to charge people for housing and food which are essential to life yet think that charging for the use of roads is fascism. The whole idea of the market is to limit free choice and turn it into paid choice. Free use of roads has distorted the market and caused the overuse of roads which has led to congestion and huge environmental damage.
Even worse, the roads in the City of Vancouver are paid for through property taxes, essentially a tax on housing. It would be much better to fund social housing through a tax on roads or at least have congestion pricing pay for the maintenance of roads in the city.
So in the end, by your twisted logic, the free market is a form of fascism.
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Socialism is a byproduct of capitalism, and vice versa. It would seem that roads paid for by all is the most efficient way of doing things, thats why you see such a unbreakable force keeping it the way it is, that is capitalism.
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