how to see past the nose on your face

what you will hear if you dare raise the possibility of roads without the state – 'but what if one company became a monopoly and charged sky high prices making huge levels of profit whilst offering terrible service?'

the gigantic and obvious truth this excuse for a challenge ignores is that the state currently has a just such a total monopoly. There is no point fearing a future possibility of monopoly when we currently suffer a present certainty of monopoly. The state (in the uk at least) makes more from road taxes and fuel duties than the roads cost them on maintenance and construction – this difference is their profit. Percentage-wise it is colossal. So the anti-anachists' fears regarding roads are in fact description of the status quo.