Outstanding observations. " Americans will have to stop clamoring for financial aid from their legislators." Politicians are rightfully bashed but many on the other side of the coin not only contribute to the problem. We love on a private, unimproved road, what has been essentially a one-car wide, eroded sand trail for 45 years until fairly recently, and the land has been cheap. While many have been waiting and complaining four decades for the county government to take over and fund it (not going to happen), a small group of us got together, took out an equity loan or came up with other cash and over the past year made a fairly decent road with runoff ditches. The rise in the land value will more than return our road investment someday when we sell, and taxpayers who don't live on this road didn't have to fund it.
Outstanding observations. " Americans will have to stop clamoring for financial aid from their legislators." Politicians are rightfully bashed but many on the other side of the coin not only contribute to the problem. We love on a private, unimproved road, what has been essentially a one-car wide, eroded sand trail for 45 years until fairly recently, and the land has been cheap. While many have been waiting and complaining four decades for the county government to take over and fund it (not going to happen), a small group of us got together, took out an equity loan or came up with other cash and over the past year made a fairly decent road with runoff ditches. The rise in the land value will more than return our road investment someday when we sell, and taxpayers who don't live on this road didn't have to fund it.