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by Jose Apr 11, 2006 at 06:20 PM
What if I never go there, or order stuff from there? Why should I pay? I am of course being contrarian (though the questions have merit). The libertarian view would also eliminate libraries and the space program. It is fatally flawed when applied as a panacea. You are taking two completely disparate views and conflating them, making arguments for one from the other. ON the one hand, you don't like airplane noise (but don't seem to mind leafblower noise). On the other hand you don't like GA "subsidies" but don't mind automotive subsidies. This leads to arguments that are inconsistant, and an excuse for inconsistancy that does not wash. I agree that libertarianism taken to an extreme would result in no roads, libraries, health care, etc. I don't want to live in a society that is like the wild west, nor would most others I think. Leafblower noise?? That is apples and oranges. You can knock on your neighbor's door, and you have common interests with your neighbors. Aircraft noise is an externality that has no cost to the aviator. The victims cannot even identify the fliers, and if they do, no one is responsible. A classic catch-22: the FAA says the airport is responsible, the airport says the FAA is responsible, and most of the fliers simply say "F- You: Its my right to make noise" or silly variants like the airport was there first. The cost of noise pollution is borne 100% by those on the ground, and they have little to no political recourse (in most places). As I said before, there are laws on the books in most communities that target noise pollution: Only plane noise is exempt. There are no automotive subsidies at the federal level. Federal gasoline taxes exceed subsidies provided for road projects. So there are in fact negative subsidies. See the BTS study I posted for info. You might find the Reason Foundation study interesting, and you'll see its not that harsh on nonbusiness GA (see pp. 31- from below link). They propose keeping the current GA avgas tax as the preferred funding method, even though correctly stating that it generates only 3% of Trust Fund $$. (They also debunk some absurd Boyerisms, but then come down largely on his side for funding of FSS, for e.g.). http://www.reason.org/ps332.pdf |
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