That's not the point. Being made to pay for something, no matter how beneficial it may be to myself or anyone else, goes against individual liberty. If someone doesn't want to help pay for the roads, they shouldn't have to.
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Sure, but how do you achieve that? Let's say you want to build a road from point A to point B but someone owns property along the route they don't wish to sell to you, how do you build your road?
That's the funny thing about freedom. If that property owner doesn't want a road through their property, who are you or anyone else to tell them they have to allow it so other people can benefit?
someone who needs to get places, like everyone else, doesn't everyone need to get places?
There's the part that you keep overlooking though. Freedom has nothing to do with what someone else might "need".
To force people to do something they don't want is no one's right. It doesn't matter what "everyone needs", if we have to force that way of being onto everyone.
On the other hand I have a freedom to go places don't I? A good compromise that we have in the US to these competing freedoms is giving people the fair market value of their property in instances where a road or border wall is needed.
You have the freedom to go places so long as the land owners allow you passage, sure.
A "good compromise" is to still force that landowner to sell part of their land, whether they want to or not, so long as you're giving them a "fair amount of money" when you take it?
yes, does this look like a good solution?
Land is just property and when you get the fair market value for it then you can go purchase equivalent land if that is what you want to do.
You make them a deal they cannot resist. They are paid well to give up a tiny fraction of their land to allow a road to be built. We already have plenty of examples of roads with large turns and other obstacles that were NOT resolved. The state simply bypasses those areas. It can and would be done without theft as it has before.
Eminent domain is typically that, people are paid market value and holdouts are paid well above market value.