Posted on 05/07/2017 9:07:44 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
your point ?
So Y’All “Southsiders” started this whole mess;)
I wish we could just lineup all these idiot ploticians and shoot them so we can start with a clean slate and REAL PEOPLE!
we already have more than enough interstates and highways. Drivers consistently refuse to pay for new interstates.
Highway Socialism hasn’t worked. Let’s try the Free Market.
>Highway Socialism hasn’t worked. Let’s try the Free Market.
Free market roads have been tried for a long time. They don’t really work well. Transportation grid socialism has a long proven track record of success. Sure it’s inefficient and often corrupt but there just isn’t a strong enough economic incentive to develop general infrastructure from the free market to make free market solution superior.
China went through a long period of civilization decline around 100AD where governments no longer maintained the roads. Instead of private individuals stepping up to build toll roads the Chinese instead turned to clever wheel barrows to transport goods on roads no longer suitable for wagons. Thus there was a strong personal economic incentive to innovate in transport types but not a strong personal economic incentive to build a working road system.
The free market is a wonderful thing, but it can’t solve all problems effectively.
“..The free market is a wonderful thing, but it can’t solve all problems effectively...”
so mispricing use of interstates is a good thing ?
as long as you have gov’t interstates, their use is going to be mispriced. Why don’t you trust the free market when it comes to interstates ?
why do you believe soviet style central planning is successful for interstates but not for grocery stores or airlines or housing or ships ?
>as long as you have gov’t interstates, their use is going to be mispriced. Why don’t you trust the free market when it comes to interstates ?
> Why don’t you trust the free market when it comes to interstates ?
For the same reason that I don’t trust the free market when it comes to mass immigration and free trade. It’s optimizes for producing the cheapest goods in the short term without any interest in creating long term efficiencies thus it favors shipping our factories to China and replacing American works with 3ed worlders.
Successful industrial nations all practiced and still practice tariffs to increase industry for long term gains. The free market works against such long term gains. Successful industrial nations all built their road and railroad systems using public goods because the free market doesn’t work to create that needed infrastructure on it’s own.
Markets are for setting prices and regulating business success or failure. That’s all their useful for. I don’t understand while some people who worship free markets in areas were they’ve proven unsuccessful over and over again.
Really. Throw the bums out!
I wonder if this rocket scientist is familiar with two other taxes, a gas tax and a sales tax?
I wonder if this rocket scientist is familiar with two other taxes, a gas tax and a sales tax?
Shipping our factories to East Asia had zero to do with the free market. It was a insane scheme by the globalists.
mass immigration also has nothing to do with the free market, it’s entirely dependent on lavish welfare benefits created by socialism.
You do know that our canals & railways & NYC subways were built by private enterprise and as long as they were unregulated provided top notch service with ever declining prices ?
>Shipping our factories to East Asia had zero to do with the free market. It was a insane scheme by the globalists.
It’s the natural extension of the free market. Companies that failed to ship their factories to east Asia went under while companies that shipped them got rich. That’s the free market it in action. Of course such actions makes everyone poorer in the US in the long run but that’s outside the realm of the free market.
>You do know that our canals & railways & NYC subways were built by private enterprise and as long as they were unregulated provided top notch service with ever declining prices ?
And you can make a profit doing that type of work in a tightly compacted city. Not so much with a port, long distance roads, or long distance railroads. There’s not enough profit in building such things for the free market to provide them.
Here’s the other way you can look at this issue. A government makes more tax revenue by increasing infrastructure if that infrastructure pulls in more commerce and trade because governments are more effective at collecting revenue from over all wealth increases than are private individuals. This gives them an economic incentive to create such improvements where a private individual has little to gain in the short term by them.
Call it normalcy bias. I usually do not drive that stretch of I-95.
ports ?
many ports are owned by private enterprise and nicely profitable
ditto airports
and highways
Really, which port is privately constructed and operated?
charleston harbor
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