Car insurance

Do you think the coverage and price of car insurance would be superior if it was not mandatory?

I think this would be a good platform to discuss the merits and flaws of a free market, and perhaps a suitable middle-ground.

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>>3
hehe ur an anus

>>3
SJIS failure.

>>3

What? Discussing the pros/cons of the free market not political enough for you?

Not enough niggerjews?

>>6
^* Not enough African Americans of Jewish descent?

If roads were privately owned they would likely develop terms drivers have to comply with to use them.

>>8
How exactly does that differ from the federally funded roads that are in place today? There's terms that drivers have to comply with for use of those already.

>>8

This is an interesting point to bring up.

High-ways could be owned by the trucking companies. They would be able to make their own regulations on speed, traffic stops, etc. But since they would be in charge of maintenance, it would not be in their best interest to go over the weight limit and damage the roads. Or maybe they would invest in a type of road that doesn't damage as easily. They could also dictate the number of adverts on their road, adding some ad-revenue.

Communities could vote on the yearly upkeep of the inner-city roads, who gets the contract, the speed limit, etc.

>>10
Trucking companies owning the highways would turn our interstate system into an awesome, well-functioning system like Amtrak, which runs on freight-owned rail.  No wait, that's utter horseshit, and we'd be screwed if we privatized our highways.  Your dad isn't right about everything.

>>11

I haven't a clue of my father's political views, seeing that he can't vote here (He doesn't want to get dual-citizenship), he never really talks much about it all... So trying to discredit me through him is kinda weak.

Oh, and Amtrak is government owned.

>>12
And the rails that their trains travel on are owned by the freight companies.

>>9
Hmm well that was kind of my point. The problem of course with private roads is that you either have a sociopathic monopoly extorting road users or you have to go through the expense of building 2 roads side by side just so they can be owned by 2 different companies.
>>10
What financial instrument would facilitate all this? Trucking companies don't really give me much confidence in this matter. I'm sure eventually something would be figured out but frankly no one wants to go through the shitstorm to get there, obviously some kind of transition would be more desirable.

The free market depends on the state to make sure people don't commit fraud and abide by property laws, I don't see how the state managing deals so several road companies can own and manage a road system in the same way gas companies use the same pipelines is state interventionism without the need for 100s of tolls/meters. This opens up the prospect of using traditional state services to manage privately owned roads so they can be marketised and is probably the most reasonable method of doing so.