Privately held roads equals feudalism??

Not sure I follow that at all. Feudalism was when almost everything was the property of the State. Just because the state was personalized as a king and his court didn't change how things worked. Force over freedom.

I've been curious about something for years. Why is it that so many people have a massive distrust of the private sector, assuming that given the least loosening of restrictions we will immediately be enslaved or destroyed by the nearest moustache-twirling CEO? Yet these same people will take a government comprised of human beings, no different than the CEO, who have demonstrated repeatedly in many cases corruption far beyond most of the private sector, and trust them with with almost infinite power over our lives? How does electing a man Senator suddenly make him a god? The least zoning official in my city has more power over my existence than Bill Gates does. Where does this idea of government=good, private=bad come from?

If you say "well, we can vote for the Senator and kick him out" then you are amazingly naive. It would be easier to pull Gates out of Microsoft than it would be to replace the entrenched senior congressmen out of Washington.

The reelection rate of congressional incumbents has been above 90 percent in every election of the last 26 years often reaching 96 to 98 percent. Senior incumbents (more than six years) have a reelection rate of 99 percent.

BTW: Roads in this country were paid for by the government. Railways were privately owned and had to be paid for out of railroad revenues. A slight competitive disadvantage. Then people wonder why there are so many more cars than trains.