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Of all people you should realize that there is no such thing as a “free lunch”, more like this a is a lunch paid by the Koch’s and thus tax payers.
Mr.O’Toole, you crazy crooked clown.
I mean, it’s not like the Kochtopus has any conflict of interest! Oh, wait:
It is always useful to learn about logical fallacies, particularly this one and this one.
Why is it that I haven’t seen you folks posting about the bribes Siemens were handing out? Same logic seems to invalidate LRT in Denver and other cities, wouldn’t it?
Highwayman and Rationalitate,
Listen carefully.
If your point was that Koch (and by association, D.J. Gribbin) were lobbying for more spending on roads, then why would they be pushing toll projects? Toll projects must attract private financing, and thus are held to a higher standard for investment than most fuel tax-financed projects. If what they wanted was more government spending and more construction, they should be promoting the pork-laden proposal by the Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.
If your point was that Koch was promoting oil consumption by increasing the supply of a complementary good (highways), then the same rules apply.
Besides, the UPA program does not contain enough money to attract a considerable amount of private investment. Most of projects have a minimal pricing element, usually making different use of some existing, but underutilized part of the transportation network (e.g. selling excess HOV capacity). In reality, they are just another vehicle to continue promoting ITS, federal transit subsidies, and now telecommuting.
We have seen this article about the program before (in a previous post, I believe). It does little to highlight the substance of the program, but does a great deal to play up the politics of those involved. It also reaffirms that reform of transportation programs will not come from within Congress. On both sides of the aisle, politicians are all to willing to go back to the pork barrel.
Question: …why would they be pushing toll projects?
Answer: The DOT persuaded Congress to change the tax code to make $15 billion in tax-exempt bonds available for private firms to build road and freight projects.
Rent-seeking isn’t a zero-sum game. The Kochtopus eats up a tiny amount of government spending (and even road spending), so any additional government spending in one area isn’t likely to cannibalize its profits in another.
“Rent-seeking isn’t a zero-sum game.”
Yes it is. This is why economists generally dislike it.
“…so any additional government spending in one area isn’t likely to cannibalize its profits in another.”
If they can privately finance projects of any type, more power to them. Money spent on these types of projects is money that will not be wasted in earmarks during the next funding cycle.
The O’Toole/Cato agenda is quite simple, sodomize US taxpayers!