General Road and Highway Discussion

[SammyOES2]

That's a slightly different argument though. An activity could be 'subsidized' in order to create a net benefit to society (the economic and social spin-off benefits more than compensate for the original cost of the subsidy). So just because something has a bunch of benefits, doesn't really inform if it was originally a subsidy or not.

And getting into evaluating the overall benefit of our current transportation system is unbelievably complicated and requires a number of value judgements that can't really be quantified objectively.