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Sometimes just private. youre basically paying for the use of the road. the problem is with a caveat, you talk about free market. i dont mind a usage tax, if you will, if you replace the gas tax. the problem is, most governments, whether its state governments or federal governments, use that money for something other than paying for the highways and bridges. they put it in mass transit or build skateboard parks or some such thing. its like its a government trust fund. thats what i dont like abou...

What youre saying here. in other words, a usage tax. this gets back to things that we talked about, a privatizing highways and bridges. you say this could work and this might be a solution for other states? >> well, yeah. i mean, look, i will grant that theres always a problem with government implementation. if they just handed the highways and toll roads and whatever bridges over to private enterprise, like the original turnpike system here in the u.s. was all private, i could work. the problem...

Cities and towns and other various projects that government likes to get into. so if they dedicated -- doesnt matter what they do. i like the usage tax because its very direct. but if they said look, this is the old al gore lock box that can only go to fix the state highways and bridges, you may have a solution that is fair. >> trish: brie? final word. >> a completely flawed analysis here. this is the state deciding to track ones mileage and behavior. its not the governments business to know how...

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