Does this Facebook post make any sense whatsoever to you? Because it doesn't to me.

[JoePhilly]

7. What they mean is that private businesses would build the roads.

Its a stupid idea, but that's what they believe.

The roads would be built by businesses to move their goods from point A to point B. And if there isn't sufficient business to be done in a certain area, roads to that location won't get built. Its a perfect free market in their mind.

What they miss is that using this logic, there would be few if any roads to rural areas because the cost to build a road to your house in the middle of nowhere is not worth building. There is no money to be made by doing so.

That's why telephone and wireless companies have charged some extra fees. The government requires them to build out the infrastructure into rural areas where there are not enough users to make such services profitable in those areas. So the companies charge all users a fee. In the end, those in urban areas subsidize the service that gets provided in rural areas.

So using your friend's logic, rural areas would basically be cut off entirely. Oddly, those areas tend to vote Republican.