What do you think about the police?

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Libertarians, as far as I can tell, tend to be far more knowledgeable about history than other people are.

Right, because the only way to have roads work is to have them in the hands of the government that has no financial incentive to make them good. With public roads, the financial incentive is to let them rot. With private roads, the financial incentive is to repair them.