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Seems to me like a false flag by someone claiming a libertarianianish ideal when the real goal is to make cars more difficult to own.
by Tiquor 11y ago
Seems to me like a false flag by someone claiming a libertarianianish ideal when the real goal is to make cars more difficult to own.
- jacobolus 11y agoWhat? Matthew Yglesias is not “libertarianish” by any stretch of the imagination, and does not claim anything of the sort. He states outright that the goal is to reduce the extremely expensive (in land, money, etc.) parking subsidy that we currently provide to cars, which obviously makes cars more difficult to own.
- Natsu 11y agoI wonder what their response will be when low income people are the hardest hit by the lack of well-developed public transport? "Sucks to be you?" is what it's sounding like, but I hope that's wrong.
- jacobolus 11y agoYglesias argues for guaranteed basic income, http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/02/17/guaranteed_basic_income_the_real_alternative_to_the_minimum_wage.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/02/17/guaranteed_ba... But he also argues for increased spending on public transit, universal healthcare, more worker-friendly labor laws, and so on.
- wmt 11y agoWhen you can't counter an argument, attack the motives!