I can see you're approaching this from the human dignity angle, but I'm talking about the reality that exists now. Right now we have people paying taxes out of their salaries that they work, to varying degrees, very hard for. When the government uses those taxes to spend $80 on a hammer when a hammer that works just as well is available for $40, that is a failure of the social contract.
End result is this, if the rest of us are expected to work all day to pay for the roads, the people making the roads should be expected to work all day too.
I can see you're approaching this from the human dignity angle, but I'm talking about the reality that exists now. Right now we have people paying taxes out of their salaries that they work, to varying degrees, very hard for. When the government uses those taxes to spend $80 on a hammer when a hammer that works just as well is available for $40, that is a failure of the social contract.
End result is this, if the rest of us are expected to work all day to pay for the roads, the people making the roads should be expected to work all day too.