Bob,
full privatization of interstates means just that. Auction off title to the land and improvements - simple.
that’s not a crony capitalist lease. It’s letting the free market do its stuff.
“Full privatization of interstates means just that. Auction off title to the land and improvements - simple.
that’s not a crony capitalist lease. It’s letting the free market do its stuff.”
And then what? Are the rights of way MONOPOLY-protected, as they are in every other case of private highways? If they’re not monopoly protected, then no one will bother bidding on them (as many states have learned).
So much for a “free market”. It will be about as “free market” as Cable TV was in the 1990s...since both will have monopoly protection.
Libertarianism works great - it works great for airlines, it works great for trucking companies, it works great for supermarkets. But regardless of what Ann Rand thinks, you cannot have a “free market” when the resource is by definition - VERY LIMITED. We are not going to allow new, parallel freeways to get built...just as we didn’t allow 10 cable companies to string up telephone poles. So you will have MONOPOLIES.
Maybe you’re into that (or have some other agenda), but most of us are not.