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Socialism is when the people directly/indirectly own the means of production. This hasn’t anything to do with socialism, but rather economic statism. Statism, being when the state owns the means of production. America, being a mixed economy, has both privately-owned and state-owned businesses.

Duh.

Not at all

No, National Security was one of the main factors in the creation of an interstate highway system.

-Safety - an annual toll of nearly 40,000 killed and 1.3 million injured.

- Congestion - wastes billions of hours in detours and jams amounting to billions of dollars in productive time.

-Courts - civil suits related to traffic clog up our courts.

-Economy - bad roads nullify the efficiency in the production of goods by inefficiency in their transport.

-DEFENSE - "the appalling inadequacies to meet the demands of catastrophe or defense, should an atomic war come."

www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/originalintent.cfm
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Yes, it is.
A system of private toll roads would be the capitalistic approach to a national highway system.

It was a combined effort of state and federal governments. What is your reasoning for it being an example of socialism.