Originally posted by: Steeplerot
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
There is no damn reason a buisnessman would invest billions in track, with no short-term goal capitolism fails in this respect.
Long term goals for the betterment of society is a group effort at times.
If people had to actually start paying to drive on the roads, how do we know what kind of transportation systems would suddenly become economically lucrative to invest in? People drive on roads because they are perceived to be free, even during peak load hours. Make people pay for transportation (of any kind), and let the free market do its work.
toll booths everywhere or new infrastructures for a dying technology is not going to help the inevitable end of cars...There will still be cars more and more choking our cities and killing our peoples. And in the end we shall still be screwed with no rail. When the inevitable does happen.
HuH? What century are you living in? Toll booths everywhere? Not really. More than enough technology exists today to charge people for using roads. You just put a device on your car, and you get a bill in the mail at the end of the month.
And this will help what? It's the same diffrence as taxation currently with extra privacy concerns.
What happens if someone just drives through?
A. It will help eliminate the 30,000 drunk driving deaths that occur every year.
B. It will eliminate traffic jams.
C. It will create new economic incentives for alternative forms of transportation which would not have to be subsidized by the government.
What do you mean what if someone just drives through? They get pulled over by a private security force. As for privacy concerns, those could be worked out as well.
As Ludwig von Mises explained decades ago " Government interventionism breeds more government interventionism." In this case the government has provided people with free access to roads at all times of the day, is alarmed at how much people use the roads, and now wants to subsidize other transportation systems. Government at its finest.