But importantly, we don't regulate your destination. We all pay to maintain the roads, even for the bum who exclusively uses the road to drive to the liquor store and the strip club and the casino.
The correct amount of "waste" for any system is not zero.
> But importantly, we don't regulate your destination.
Roads and cars aren’t food. I am not sure what the merits of this analogy are beyond the fact that both are publicly provided goods funded by taxes which use is regulated by the government by virtue of that fact.
The correct amount of "waste" for any system is not zero.