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Neither of those things are what American conservatives refer to as "market-oriented". Congestion charges are taxes, and therefore abominable; alternative tran
by thebooktocome 8y ago
Neither of those things are what American conservatives refer to as "market-oriented".
Congestion charges are taxes, and therefore abominable; alternative transport is socialist, ditto.
Since conservatives control the majority of state governments, neither policy can make progress in the current environment.
- TheCoelacanth 8y agoSubsidizing the use of roads by letting people use them for free after spending a great deal of money on building and maintaining them is not "market-oriented". Charging people to use them is the closest you can get to market-oriented if you are already stuck with the roads. The most market-oriented solution would be not to build public roads in the first place, but it's too late for that.
- thebooktocome 8y agoI suppose we could just demolish all the public roads and start over.
- TulliusCicero 8y agoUrban roads are a natural monopoly, you're not gonna build multiple parallel sets of roads going along each block.