That's what I was saying. In your view because some fascist pigs didn't steal the money from the people they "suffer" with poor roads.
Voluntary community organization works fine. No need for parasites.
In the US, for the first 120 years or so, most rural roads were maintained by local governments. A typical arrangement was that a family would either contribute labor (say, 2 weeks per year), or, they could contribute some equivalent amount of money to the upkeep of roads. Or, if you were particularly well off, you could send someone else to do the labor for you.
It was in the land owner's 'radical self interest' to maintain their local roads. Without some formalized system, the roads (really just paths) would make it hard for people to interact with others. Most farms were subsistence-level enterprises. Yet, they had to get some of their goods to the mill, or to the village to trade for goods they may need.
Guess what? For the most part, the roads uniformly sucked. During the spring, the roads were unpassable quagmires. Yes, some places created plank roads if trees were available. But, for swaths of the country, suitable lumber was not available. Cobbles and macadam were reserved for urban areas. Not surprisingly, most long-range commerce was conducted on rivers and seas. Hence, those bastard statists proposed and built the Erie Canal, which helped settle the Midwestern states.
(And as an aside, those bastard statists, such as Thomas Jefferson, passed the Land Ordinance of 1785. The Land Ordinance created the systematic approach to surveying land outside of the original colonies. It gives the familiar checkerboard pattern to land use in much of the US. Guess what, land owners were expected to donate right-of-way on section lines to the local government for building local roads. Surely this is a regulatory taking; nobody received a dime in 'just compensation' even though they lost land they had paid for.)
This is a long-winded explanation for why statists started the 'Good Roads Movement' in the 1890s to get rid of outmoded, outdated, and unworkable contemporary solution to maintaining roads. They felt that roads should be engineered, all-weather solutions to getting from point A to point B.
Damn you Good Roads Movement people who used the tyranny of the majority to keep the man down. Who knew that less than 60 years later, these statists would propose (and fund) one of the largest and most expensive public works projects in the history of the world--the Interstate Highway System. Damn you for allowing me to enjoy fresh oranges thousands that have to be trucked thousands of miles. Damn you for allowing me to drive from coast-to-coast in days, not months.
Damn you statists for taking away one bit of liberty and replacing it with another. It is unpossible for that to happen in my utopia.
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