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You guys need one of the bar things so, that people can slide it and go back to something, or go forward because sometimes I think of some thing later and want to go back and see if I heard your right and I have to listen to the whole show a second time. Sometimes I do not have enough time for that.
I think it is interesting that your reply to my last comment was that my arguing that governments create efficiency in some cases was problematic because efficiency is not what we have government for. I think it is important to understand that the big question with governments is not a black-and-white question of liberty on one hand and satan’s plan on the other. In reality, the question of the proper role of goverment is a spectrum with anarchy on one hand and totalitarianism on the other. The debate we are constantly hashing over in our society is where do we want our government to sit on that spectrum.
Let’s take the time to envision our society as you have framed it on the subject of roads. Let’s follow that argument and see where it leads. Let’s see if that is a society you want to be a part of. In a place where government does not create roads we know the interstate system as we have it could not exist. No way no how. That means the transfer of goods and people would be significantly hampered and our standard of living would suffer. If there was a need for a new road somewhere all of the property owners in the new road’s path would have to agree to it. A single individual could hold it up. Now, even if you could get everyone to agree to it – the property owners would surely require a fee to cross their land. That means after you traveled the mile or two on this road you would have to pay a fee. So – let’s say you had to move the tomatoes you grow on your property to market 50 miles away. Over that 50 miles there are 20 turnpikes, each requiring the driver to stop the vehicle and pay a fee. Because of the stopping it takes the driver 1 hour more to move the cargo and he racks up $200 in turnpike fees.
Is that a society you want to live in? More liberty – yes. But who cares? Your life is worse off – but you have more liberty. You cannot afford to move things around or buy anything useful. You cannot afford to have a job that is not within walking distance of your house. You cannot afford to ship in useful items from far – but you are free.
Forget that – I am for a government with a slightly expanded role and our society with a better standard of living.
Having said that I think our government ought to move alot closer to the anarchy side of the spectrum than it is today. I think you guys do a great job and you raise good points. You are just a little too doctrinaire in your application of principles.
Contact me if you ever want to do a live “Darth Scott”
Heya Jenn. :)~~
I just figured out an answer to your problem.
If you have a google account, you can subscribe to ldsliberty.org in “Google Reader”. They have those controls on there for you to slide the control around so you can re-listen to the file.
Also if you click on the download link for the podcast file, some audio software on your own machine may pop up to play the file and you’ll have those controls too. Windows media player is a likely one for that.
I think that the altogether easiest thing to do is to subscribe to the podcast via itunes so you’ll get the episode delivered to you automatically each time we release a new episode. :)~
Scott, laying aside the abominable lack of morals they demonstrate, your objections to a less violent society have been addressed ad nauseum by many people in many ways. I’d suggest taking a look through some of the free documents at the Mises Institute’s website, for example.
But beyond that, your vision of toll booths along every private road betrays an amazing lack of imagination. Actually, an imagination isn’t even required; there are plenty of privately-owned roads today that don’t use toll booths and aren’t an undue fiscal burden on their users. The idea that a private road system could cost more on the whole than the government system is utter economic ignorance.