The article in Governing a couple of years ago, "King of the Road," about the hypocrisy of these oil-industry hacks at 'Reason' Foundation and Cato should be required reading. Public money spent on transit and high speed rail is a Stalinist-Marxist plot but billions of dollars of public money for highways and other roads is the perfect result of the free-market.
King of the Road
What's up with groups that argue for less government but see publicly built highways as an expression of the free market?
BY: ALEX MARSHALL | APRIL 1, 2008
http://www.governing.com/columns/eco...-the-Road.html
Robert Poole has no problem arguing for generous subsidies for private aircraft owners. In a posting on the Reason Foundation’s website in October 2008 (
http://reason.org/news/show/1003189.html ), Robert Poole argues for a $5,000 subsidy per pilot to equip general aviation aircraft with NextGen avionics.