It’s 45 minutes long, but this video from the folks at Reason TV is filled with good information on the foolish ideas of central planners who want to control our transportation.
You’ll learn in the first half of the video, for instance, how high-speed rail is like raising baby chicks (you’ll have to watch to understand).
Around the 25-minute mark, you’ll hear about how the Obama Administration wants to divert revenues from the gas tax to all sorts of schemes (such as mass transit) that violate the user-pays principle.
The video doesn’t address the fundamental issue of whether there should be any federal role in transportation, but it’s a great primer about current issues in transportation policy.
[…] but not least, the folks at Reason (who have a long track record of being right on this issue) published a we-told-you-so […]
[…] Yet now Biden wants to increase federal subsidies for that money pit, along with other long-distance rail schemes. […]
[…] Yet now Biden wants to increase federal subsidies for that money pit, along with other long-distance rail schemes. […]
[…] Yet now Biden wants to increase federal subsidies for that money pit, along with other long-distance rail schemes. […]
[…] Yet now Biden wants to increase federal subsidies for that money pit, along with other long-distance rail schemes. […]
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[…] Click here and here to learn more about the boondoggle of government-funded […]
[…] Yet now Biden wants to increase federal subsidies for that money pit, along with other long-distance rail schemes. […]
[…] Click here and here to learn more about the boondoggle of government-funded […]
[…] Click here and here to learn more about the boondoggle of government-funded […]
[…] Yet now Biden wants to increase federal subsidies for that money pit, along with other long-distance rail schemes. […]
[…] Yet now Biden wants to increase federal subsidies for that money pit, along with other long-distance rail schemes. […]
[…] If you’re transportation wonk, here’s a very informative 45-minute video on rail and highway […]
[…] If you’re transportation wonk, here’s a very informative 45-minute video on rail and highway […]
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[…] be surprised to learn that many of these initiative contain wasteful pork-barrel projects (just like when funded from DC). And my colleague Chris Edwards has poked holes in the assertion that we’re facing an […]
[…] be surprised to learn that many of these initiative contain wasteful pork-barrel projects (just like when funded from DC). And my colleague Chris Edwards has poked holes in the assertion that we’re facing an […]
[…] the gas taxes used for roads, or is some of the money siphoned off for boondoggle mass transit projects? Do the states have Project Labor Agreements and other policies that line the pockets of unions and […]
[…] the gas taxes used for roads, or is some of the money siphoned off for boondoggle mass transit projects? Do the states have Project Labor Agreements and other policies that line the pockets of unions and […]
[…] The point about gas taxes being diverted is important. Even if we keep the status quo, we don’t need Washington squandering road money of things such as mass transit or high-speed rail boondoggles. […]
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