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Re: Four Quick Answers (posted 11 November 2008)

Roads and other infrastructure should be provided by voluntary means, with some combo of user fees/advertising, etc. paying for them—and they would be in a free market, just as innovation would still get done without the monopoly formerly known as intellectual property paying off politically-connected rent seekers. Roads would also be better maintained in a free market, so the transportation costs incurred by Wal-Mart would fall in a free market.