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Why would libertarians hate tolls? If anything they hate free public roads.

Privatize, charge a bundle to use them and they're happy like pigs in poop!

The libertarian sensibility is to make people who use the resource pay for it, so tolls are the correct way to pay for roads. If we could get a national system that charged based on the odometer, this would also be an option.

well insurance companies have something similar now where they track your driving using GPS.

In principle I like that because you pay for the risk you are, but in practice it sucks because I have no way to force the insurance company to just use the data to charge me insurance and not to track my peccadilloes.

> Why would libertarians hate tolls?

I think GP was saying that, however much they might like private pay-per-use roads in theory, libertarians are still annoyed with road tolls in practice.

Not that I agree with that assessment, but that seems to be the intent.

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