[Superman]

Yes, the guibmint subsidizes certain stuff in the interest of commerce. Boeing is not going to build roads around here, but they've sure threatened to pull out if the State does not do this. There is a theory that there are certain things we do as a community to encurage commerce. Oh, and then there are the tax cuts for corporations and subsidies directly to them, etc. I wonder if the anti-tax crowd here would agree that those corporate subsidies should go away.

User taxes are still taxes. I sure don't disagree with them, but you should hear the Washington State neocons squeal when they hear of a proposal to raise the gas tax. My friend Gaijindabe disagree on many things, but perhaps this is not one? If so, then he and I may be two of the few people who seem to understand that gubmint is not a funding source but rather a pass-through mechanism, and that public structures like roads, bridges and water utilities are constructed like anything else.....with money.

Then again, maybe John has verbalized the conservative vision for the future. Used oil dumped directly into our aquifers, everyone with a 4WD so that we can tear cross-country and avoid highway taxes, maybe avoid highways altogether, etc. Anarchy is correct. The ultimate result of ultimate deregulation.