Oh, well... so sorry. You obviously live off grid and make all your own food, lumber, toilet paper, electricity, etc and have NEVER once driven on a paved road. OMG, what am I saying... what could you be driving that wasn't federally subsidized. Even if the roads are rough, they EXIST because of taxes. The only way you get to bitch about taxes for roads is if you built a God damned flying car and are about to start mass production of it. Otherwise, we, who build those roads... can show you what life is like without them. (Do NOT poke this bear.)
Roads are funded by just a percentage of our taxes, why not acknowledge some of the uselessly overfunded departments paid for with our tax dollars that serve little to no purpose
"We who build these roads can show you what life Is like without them"
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The people who build roads work for the government. The government works for the people. They are employees, not gracious benefactors.
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If they are hired to build roads, and if they take money in ordinance with building said roads, and IF after they have already been paid to build these roads then they refuse to complete the work AND refuse to return the money... that doesn't make them righteous defenders of all that is just and good in the world. It actually makes them thieves. Which means they probably should be working IN the government, not for it, but that's another matter.
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Thieves are actually one of the most easily replacable types of employees in existence. You can find them anywhere and everywhere.
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So if you're going to be a thief in public, you should at least be a courteous one, because your job is pretty easily fillable by just about anyone in existence.
You also can't "take away" roads. Unless maybe you're a wizard with a very specific power. You can stop production of roads, which would cause the ones in existence to deteriorate.
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Except that would take time. And, of course, YOU would also suffer the consequences of not having roads ..... As would your first-level employer (the government).
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Assuming that the government didn't decide that people not wanting to build roads they were paid to build ISN'T actually worth the absolute degradation of the country and society they are intended to govern over.... I imagine they would actually want to find a solution to this issue.
Regardless, if the government failed to do the job it was paid to do as well.... Unless they want to guard every potential location a road might exist with militant force (for what purpose?).... Regular people would, eventually, figure out how to build roads themselves.
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Because unless I'm VERY much mistaken (and it's certainly happened before), one of the only reasons random Joe doesn't go down and buy some tar to patch up the pothole that's been concussing him for the last 3 years is because... the government says he's not allowed to.
As Adam said, you don't pay someone to do half a job.
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If you send your child to school, paid for by your tax dollars or by yourself, and the school only teaches them Half the alphabet... that's a pretty big problem. And you're going to be pretty pissed off about it. Especially if the teacher then responds to you with "what??? They learned something, didn't they? What did you think we meant when we said 'sometimes y'? It's kind of a superfluous letter, really. You should be grateful."
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This is a completely different issue from sending a kid to school where there is one teacher responsible for four classrooms with 26 kids each expected to run simultaneously. OR, alternatively, registering your child for a class like microbiology, and the teacher never being informed this was something they were required to teach.
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Your money is still not being spent correctly, but this becomes an issue of an actual lack of resources -- or mismanagement at a higher level.
We pay about 30% county taxes in Sweden and our roads are really good, our schools are ok, higher education is free and we get healthcare, sick days and maternity leave. I think you guys are getting ripped off.
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The people who build roads work for the government. The government works for the people. They are employees, not gracious benefactors.
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If they are hired to build roads, and if they take money in ordinance with building said roads, and IF after they have already been paid to build these roads then they refuse to complete the work AND refuse to return the money... that doesn't make them righteous defenders of all that is just and good in the world. It actually makes them thieves. Which means they probably should be working IN the government, not for it, but that's another matter.
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Thieves are actually one of the most easily replacable types of employees in existence. You can find them anywhere and everywhere.
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So if you're going to be a thief in public, you should at least be a courteous one, because your job is pretty easily fillable by just about anyone in existence.
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Except that would take time. And, of course, YOU would also suffer the consequences of not having roads ..... As would your first-level employer (the government).
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Assuming that the government didn't decide that people not wanting to build roads they were paid to build ISN'T actually worth the absolute degradation of the country and society they are intended to govern over.... I imagine they would actually want to find a solution to this issue.
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Because unless I'm VERY much mistaken (and it's certainly happened before), one of the only reasons random Joe doesn't go down and buy some tar to patch up the pothole that's been concussing him for the last 3 years is because... the government says he's not allowed to.
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If you send your child to school, paid for by your tax dollars or by yourself, and the school only teaches them Half the alphabet... that's a pretty big problem. And you're going to be pretty pissed off about it. Especially if the teacher then responds to you with "what??? They learned something, didn't they? What did you think we meant when we said 'sometimes y'? It's kind of a superfluous letter, really. You should be grateful."
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This is a completely different issue from sending a kid to school where there is one teacher responsible for four classrooms with 26 kids each expected to run simultaneously. OR, alternatively, registering your child for a class like microbiology, and the teacher never being informed this was something they were required to teach.
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Your money is still not being spent correctly, but this becomes an issue of an actual lack of resources -- or mismanagement at a higher level.
But I will still find something to be angry at