What about the Roads?

We dont need no stinking roads..
Someone built a Delorean that can 'fly' and it's for sale

 

Well, when infrastructure week turns into infrastructure two years and counting...look to the pizza, Elaine.

 

Well like a lot of what comes out of right wing libertarian mouths this makes no sense in a literal sense although in another sense Domino's already do build roads (explained at the end) - but first - businesses like "Domino's Pizza" only exists because of the infrastructures built up by the state.

This has basically been the history of roads. Take the Romans for example, they were master road builders, these were military resources but had economic benefits, this can be seen by the number of towns and villages that grow up because of the roads. They made it easier to transport goods to market places, this in turn lead to businesses like flour mills, that allowed in turn bakery’s and yes the Roman equivalent of pizza places (thermopolia).

The prosperity of the US was in part built on easy access to previously untouched resources and a lot of the problem in the early period was a lack of infrastructure by which it could be tapped. This was often realised by governance which used public money or enacted ways of raising money to construct the roads, bridges, canals and later railways that were needed to bring prosperity. For example the Erie Canal that brought such economic benefits to New York and other cities on the eastern seaboard (along with wheat, tomatoes and cheese – to make pizza).

The railways opened up the Midwest and allowed goods and materials access to the Pacific and Atlantic and the roads carried that on such as Eisenhower’s Federal Aid Highway act of 1956 which has been called the "Greatest public works project in history".

Then there is the thing we are communicating on - the internet and the World Wide Web (on which many people order their pizza)

Also public works are about spreading the benefits of prosperity, infrastructure does not just help businesses but also families and individuals. For example sewage systems have done a great deal to improve the lives of people. In 1950’s America (some 50% in rural areas) had no plumbing or flushing toilets while today only a few go without those things. Which allows people to clean up after having finished their pizza.

BUT once the infrastructure is in place it seems to me only right and proper for the state to tax such businesses that benefit from it to maintain and improve the system.

So as i say through taxation Domino's Pizza already builds roads.

 

Wonder if the idea stemmed from the truck accident which deposited thousands of frozen pizzas onto the highway

 

Two ways of looking at it I guess.

Some some free market wet dream in this. I just see sadness and evidence for a so called "big goverment" to fix the roads. Do we really want to depend on a pizza chain? Where is their spot in congress? And who sets the criteria for what is safe and not? Families are on this road.