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Ah yes, I want my roads built by smugglers.

You people would rather die than commit heresy against the Church of Free Market.

Building private roads is (almost) illegal in most of the world, so you'll mostly see criminals do it.

Financing roads from tolls is fairly straightforward.

Financing by tolls, there's another excellent example of wealth creation by the government, thank you.

You're not sneering hard enough yet.

Private companies can levy tolls on their road just fine.

I haven't asked "name something that governments can do that private companies can't".

Why would you want to privatize something that is effectively a natural monopoly? How could consumers ever benefit from that over the longterm?

Exactly. That's another feature of the Free Market Fundamentalists - their analysis always stops short of asking any relevant questions.

Why would you nationalise something that's effectively a natural monopoly? How are consumers supposed to benefit from that?