Question

Tragedy of the Commons Question

Public roads that are government-funded are used only by the private parties that drive on them but are paid for by taxpayers in common, whether or not those taxpayers use the roads or not. So the cost of the roads should only be borne by the private parties who use the roads.

Answer 1

Public roads that are government-funded are used only by the private parties that drive on them but are paid for by taxpayers in common, whether or not those taxpayers use the roads or not.

From the above sentence generally, people things that it's not useful for the public and only private parties are using so only they need to bear the cost of the road.

BUT when looking from a different perspective, the government spend money on private parties because they are sure that private parties can benefit to the government. If the government is benefited, indirectly it is beneficial to the public also.

Hence there is no problem for using the money from the public to the roads which are used by the private parties.