The Privatization of Roads and Highways
A panel discussion with Walter Block, sponsored by the Federalist Society at University of Tennessee College of Law on 26 January 2009.
A panel discussion with Walter Block, sponsored by the Federalist Society at University of Tennessee College of Law on 26 January 2009.
Freedom, or liberty, is the natural law that the Founders knew put us in the image of God.
Both books seek to explain the strange elitism of the Left and its opposition to capitalism for the masses. And they both discern that the answer lies in the way that the market is so slavishly devoted to serving the needs of the average person as opposed to society's philosopher kings.
Taken from Free Market Economics: A Basic Reader, compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves (pp. 227-231). Narrated by Floy Lilley.
We once did have private roads, several centuries ago.
Our present institutional arrangements are characterized as socialistic.
"You libertarians are really nuts. … Why depend on the willy-nilly whims of some capitalist exploiter when the state is there to provide this wonderful service for free?"
It is time for highway privatization, with MADD taking a lead role in this initiative.