John A. Viator wrote:
>
> My (non-economist) take on this:
>
> The federal government has an obligation to step in where the
> assumptions of a free market fall short in practice. I think a free
> market model assumes that goods can be transported fairly easily.
Not at all - transportation costs are just like any other cost.
--
Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we
ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught
books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what *they*
thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of
light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the
lustre of the firmament of bards and sages."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
