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And the MSM thinks this man will appeal to Americans who are mad as hell at government?
Suffice it to say that a guy who has a bad day when an eight dollar car toll is rejected is not the sort of fellow that would fill any discernible vacuum in the coming presidential race. If there’s anything the race for 2008 has its fill of, it’s pro-government politicians.
Now this guy, on the other hand…
July 18th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
“This guy” is gonna break into high single digit numbers by the time the primaries roll around.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
I’ve said it before, i’ll say it again:
If people are tired of government, there’s really only one option. That guy.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Oh and…
Any person who is against Bloomberg’s nanny state road sh*t must, logically, be against any and all programs that, through negative financial incentives, in a nanny-state way, promote certain kinds of behavior in a non-market-oriented way.
Just off the top of my head, the porn thing that we were discussing yesterday comes to mind. Let the market decide.
Regarding the roads, if the subways were to be privatized, perhaps there would be competitive spirit in the air, and they could actually be more efficient. Then, the market will have created a way in which people don’t even need to use the roads nearly as much.
It’s unfortunate that the subways were created so wonderfully with the free market, then in the 50s or so, the government said, “You can’t raise your fees for using the subway any more. that’s not fair” (i’m probably really shortening the story, but I’m getting the gist out there). Then, obviously the subways went bankrupt, because they couldn’t keep up with the increasing demand with population expansion. The government took it over, and it’s been getting less and less efficient since.
Let voluntarism prevail.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
**”promote or discourage”, up in the top paragraph.
July 19th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I’ve never really understood the unyielding opposition to price congestion taxes among conservatives. My problem with Bloomberg’s plan, is that it’s not designed to be revenue neutral. It’s a tax increase, meant to fund more big government. But, I’d have no problem with the government replacing our “flat” toll taxation scheme, with a revenue neutral congestion taxation alternative. Indeed, nothing strikes me as more conservative. Roads have supply and demand as much as anything else. When demand increases, with a constant supply, it’s perfectly rational to expect prices to increase as well. The fact that they’re constant is something, if the roads were operated instead by private entities, which would be in total contravention of market forces.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Oh, I’d be fully supportive of privatized roads.
July 19th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Can I say something about “Bloomy”? He is a NOTHING but an elitist liberal democrat, who ran as a republican only because that was the only way for him to win the mayoralty. AND, he needed Rudy to do it. Now, he has turned the other cheek to Rudy. ALSO…. I was in New York a few times in the past couple of years, most recently last week, and let me tell the world this:
Rudy turned New York completely on its ass, and not only fixed the crime problem, but he also cleaned the city up and made it the financial capital of the world again. Granted, 9-11 did some damage to that but after having Bloomberg in office, I see a new DECLINE in New York - - it is getting dirty again and it just doesnt have the same eclectic buzz and feel that it did under Rudy.