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Yes, but suppose there's a "road company" you'd have to pay a toll to. Obviously they love profit margins and since they're a monopoly (they own the road) the toll would soon balloon to $20 then $35 then $100.

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I think landowners should declare a value for their property, that is used for taxation, but also allows anyone to immediately buy the land from you at that price. This would allow rival road companies to quickly purchase the land necessary to build an alternative road. Such wasteful duplication would rarely happen in practice, though, because the knowledge that they do not have a guaranteed monopoly, that another company can build an alternative road if they charge exorbitant fees, will keep the charge to use the road reasonable.

>I think landowners should declare a value for their property, that is used for taxation, but also allows anyone to immediately buy the land from you at that price. This would allow rival road companies to quickly purchase the land necessary to build an alternative road.

I don't really think "Yankee Swap" is the best model for land management, my guy.

Then don’t take the road.

You can’t opt out of high taxes.

And do what, fly?

Let them eat cake!

While flying in the skys above the poor plebs in one those soon-to-come eVTOLs?

Every medium sized city, and above, in the mainland U.S. is serviced by multiple highways.

I highly doubt either any future city government would allow all the highways to be converted to privately owned toll roads.

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