[eru]

Building private roads is (almost) illegal in most of the world, so you'll mostly see criminals do it.

See also https://www.accessmagazine.org/spring-1993/private-toll-road...

Financing roads from tolls is fairly straightforward.

[tjrgergw]

Financing by tolls, there's another excellent example of wealth creation by the government, thank you.

[eru]

Private companies can levy tolls on their road just fine.

[tjrgergw]

I haven't asked "name something that governments can do that private companies can't".

[brvsft]

You're not sneering hard enough yet.

[ffhhttt]

Why would you want to privatize something that is effectively a natural monopoly? How could consumers ever benefit from that over the longterm?

[eru]

Why would you nationalise something that's effectively a natural monopoly? How are consumers supposed to benefit from that?

[tjrgergw]

Exactly. That's another feature of the Free Market Fundamentalists - their analysis always stops short of asking any relevant questions.