If I am going to call some platform a “freedom markets theology” platform, my #1 candidate is a policy-oriented think tank called the Reason Foundation, staffed

If I am going to call some platform a “freedom markets theology” platform, my #1 candidate is a policy-oriented think tank called the Reason Foundation, staffed by Libertarians, and dedicated to both freedom and markets. While their writing here is not as strident as at their sister site it is certainly worth calling “theology” in an offhand sense like this one. Their site: http://reason.org http://reason.org The thing is that, quite contrary to what you say here, they end up being quite focused on “user pays” infrastructure, particularly for highways (where the worst wear and tear comes from trucks). Besides tolls they also like congestion pricing schemes and hate exceptions to the schemes being handed to privileged groups. You want them to start charging for the bike lane too? They’d be all over that. Market pricing is how they propose to allocate scarce resources; what’s more scarce than road space in Manhattan? There’s a lot of room to be skeptical of “freedom market theology” but it deserves to be critiqued for what it is, not what it is imagined to be, and this particular attack on it is actually radically at odds with what it teaches. p.s. Oh, yeah, great, send upvotes for the non-constructive political cheap shots which misrepresent actual policy positions, and -2 for the post using effort to challenge bullshit with fact. Love you too, HN, and I know you'll never change. Send more downvotes, I love it.