Beta is worthless. I'm out of here, and it will be a long time until I even look here again.

Marriages are fucking contracts.

Actually, in most states a fucking contract can get you jailed.

When the government is telling you who you must do business with, the government is, by definition, fascist.

From your criticism of local standards I can't tell if you're supporting national/international standards or individual standards, so I'll point out the flaws in both. In the sense of a standard meaning a criterion the same for everyone, "individual standard" is an oxymoron. National education standards ends up with the censorship of history so common in totalitarian governments.

The standards of education need to be appropriate for the community. It's pointless to teach Eskimos to surf or Hawaiians to build igloos. At the other extreme, not every parent is capable of defining educational goals for their children; illiterates can't be allowed to prevent their children from reading.

There's hardly a single item of truth in your post, but I'll expose just one flaw. Political and philosophic movements seldom have names that agree with their policies. There's nothing progressive about progressivism. Originally liberalism referred to a freedom-based ideology somewhat like today's libertarianism, but modern American liberalism is an alternate name for progressivism. American conservatism doesn't mean maintenance of the status quo, it means conserving the principles of the government established 1776-1787.

I'll never forgive my mother for making me give away some of my more valued toys. I still have stuff from 50 years ago, and I dearly miss a few cherished things that her religious beliefs caused me to lose.

Bill Murray has been a "big famous actor" since 1977 when he replaced Chevy Chase in Saturday Night Live. Ghostbusters is a young man's movie, and Murray looks older than Gene Hackman on a bad day. They'd have to apply makeup with a trowel.

And grouping "white, male, racist, asshole" together is a standard leftist lie.

Small New Hampshire town here. Many local officials aren't even paid, yet they're elective offices. There isn't much leeway for waste when the government is paid for out of a population of 2000.

10,000 pages is about 30 to 45 books. No need to leave the house, that's $250 to $370 from Amazon, delivered to your door. Less than cable TV.

Actually, $2 billion profit on $64 billion revenue is very poor profit margin for anything but static industries. 3% leaves too little tolerance for mistakes.

How many local governments actually have the ability to build out a fiber network? They'd have to contract it done, probably by the same company that would have done it anyway.

The history of cable laying must vary by community, because where I live it was paid for by the cable company.

Railroads built a lot of bridges.

Private highways were being built and used when Eisenhower pushed through the Interstate system. Part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was originally private. Government has the advantage of stealing land through eminent domain; private companies could easily be stymied if they had an enemy in government, or just a bureaucrat soliciting bribes. Buying land from tens of thousands of landowners to make way for a big road is no easy undertaking.

Do you pay to drive from one end of a WalMart parking lot to the other? It's private. Why aren't there any tolls?

Neighborhoods sometimes have private roads, and don't charge tolls. The residents pay for road upkeep through a property owner's association. Private roads through a business district could be maintained the same way, either through contracting work on their road or paying a road company in possession of the road a fee for its use. The net effect would be the same as paying for road maintenance through taxes, with the additional advantage that road owners don't have to go begging to the government to fix that pothole that's been growing for five months.