Funding roads (taxes, user fees etc)

[ijmorlan]

Roads aren't free to users, they are only free if I steal someones car and drive it. Roads would still be needed if no one has a car and paying gas taxes etc.

So the cost of walking down a sidewalk should include shoes?

Just because you must bring your own ball to play, doesn't make it not free play hour at the basketball court.

Be careful … next they’re going to claim that the parking at Conestoga Mall is actually paid parking, all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding.

Minor nitpick — the cost of walking down a sidewalk (comfortably, for most people) does include shoes. However, the price does not.

The strangest thing about this is how we are getting disagreement about basic facts. There are actually a wide variety of supportable positions regarding how various types of roads should be paid for, and in one of my early posts I even indicated that I wasn’t sure that I myself fully supported the position I had stated. But reasonable people cannot disagree that there is in fact no price charged to use most roads in Ontario.