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I hate seeing my taxes wasted on roads maintenance, airports and medical facilities for the ones that didn’t bother having a physical activity or eating healthy during they life (the list can go very long). Don’t take me wrong, I’m happy to have roads and hospitals but not at that scale. I pay vastly more for those than what I benefit from.

On the other hand I’m very happy to freely use the new cycling roads and benefit from a somewhat stable and secure society where the chances are low to encounter a furious outcast that want to rob me.



You've misunderstood the point. Roads, airports, medical facilities are shared infrastructure. Private living arrangements are not.


Fair point. I was about to respond:

[One could see some similitudes in the occupation of a rented place for some years and the occupation of ~5m2 on the road for some seconds. Also public hospitals are often congested so they are shared but you have to wait... I admit you wait shorter than for an appartement]

However as I considered that and what you wrote, I'm not sure about it. I post it for posterity.




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