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Many other services that people feel are important as a basis for the economy and society, such as education, highways, and parks, are not public goods; in principle, they could be provided only to those who were willing to pay for them and withheld from those who don’t. For example, all education could be offered by private schools and all highways could be offered to users on a toll basis (essentially the way railroads are). However, these are basic and important services that most people think government should provide because they constitute the underlying infrastructure for everything else; certainly, in the United States, the government provides such services.