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American Dream Coalition

The American Dream Coalition was formed in 2003 to help people protect freedom, mobility, and affordable homeownership. The Coalition held an annual conference for many years and published reports and other information useful to people who are upset with the effects of intrusive government planning on the livability of their cities and regions. The organization is now off-line but many of its documents are still available here.

Among others, the American Dream Coalition published several reports by the Antiplanner, including:

41. Fighting FasTracks

Not long after the Preserving the American Dream conference, I was approached by Jon Caldara, who had attended the conference and encouraged me to form an American Dream Coalition. But now he wanted me to come work for his organization, the Independence Institute, Colorado’s free-market think tank.

Jon came to lead the Independence Institute via an unusual path. He had a business doing stage lighting for rock-and-roll bands when he decided to run for the board of directors of Denver’s Regional Transit District (RTD), whose fifteen members are elected from individual districts. Jon got himself elected by the Boulder district in 1994 and was later named board chair. Although he was unable to prevent RTD from putting light rail on the ballot in 1997, he led a successful campaign against the tax increase. As a result, the institute offered him the job of being its director in 1998.

At the time, Denver already had one light-rail line that, ironically, had been built as the indirect result of the Independent Institute’s actions. The institute’s founder, John Andrews, helped persuade the state legislature to require that RTD contract out a portion of its bus routes—initially 20 percent, later half—to private operators. This reduced costs by almost 50 percent per vehicle mile. Andrews expected RTD would spend the savings expanding bus service. Instead, it used the funds to build the region’s first light-rail line, which in the long run proved to be more wasteful than letting RTD operate all of its buses. Continue reading

The Tata Nano

An Indian auto manufacturer plans to sell a two-cylinder, 5-passenger automobile for just $2,500. Some predict that the Tata Nano will become the Model T of the developing world.

Flickr photo by bbjee.

Of course, some government officials worry that selling affordable cars to Indians will cause too much congestion and parking problems. Only the government would think like that. Imagine how ABC, CBS, and NBC would react if someone found a way to make televisions more affordable: “O woe is us! More affordable TVs will just make the demand for quality television higher.”

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