The roads are owned by the govenment, but who builds them? Should we have govenment owned construction companies? They are also part of the infrastructure envisioned by the founding fathers well over two hundred years ago. A better comparison would be cars and motorcycles. There were some government owned automakers that operated with no competition in East Germany and the Soviet Union. Fiat and Yugo were government owned too. Hey, great stuff.
As for college loans and grants, what do you think has driven the cost of a college education up at several times the cost of living? Colleges always increase their prices when loan limits are increased.
As for healthcare costs as part of the costs of doing business for international business. What is the difference between paying it out in healthcare costs directly and paying it to the government in taxes so they can cover healthcare costs? There are lots of ways to control costs that big unions, and some politicians, fight tooth and nail. Then they whine that costs are too high and we need to have the government run it.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
