Before the government financed highways, we had a nice system of private streetcars. If we stopped transportation funding, eventually that system would be rebuilt and there wouldn't be highways, public or private.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:57 PM, gary popkin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Get rid of government highways and government highway funding. Government > highways work very well if there are no problems, but there is a problem > every day. Riding on government highways these days is like going to the > post office or the DMV. > > If highways were privately owned, I think the major problem that would be > addressed is traffic delays. Time is money, and competing roads would > advertise their "on-time" superiority. Many technological advances could be > brought to bear to eliminate traffic delays. I will not speculate on what > such advances might be. I will leave that to the inventors and entrepreneurs > who have their own money at stake. > > If I or any small group of people could know what innovations the free > market would develop, we wouldn't need the free market and communism would > have worked. > > > --- On Tue, 10/20/09, Eric Miller > <[email protected]<1ericmiller1%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > > Boring! Libertarians agreeing with each other does not good tv make. Also > > they all love to talk about mass transit, but rarely if ever mention > getting > > rid of highway funding. > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- Eric Miller http://www.ericmiller.me http://www.melroseduddy.com Twitter: ericwmiller Phone: 412-499-3482 Fax: 412-872-9064 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
