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GMU Econ PhD student Alex Salter ruminates creatively on libertarians and voting [3]. A slice:
History is full of examples of privately supplied roads and education, not to mention more difficult cases. The existence of a collective-action problem is not a sufficient argument for government intervention. To believe otherwise is to ignore the creative and imaginative capacities of individuals engaging in private collective action to overcome collective-action problems.
David Friedman again puts government priorities in perspective [5].
John Taylor, writing in the Wall Street Journal, explains that the problem is extreme policies rather than extreme people [6]. And Taylor here ably counters Paul Krugman’s disagreement with crucial parts of Taylor’s essay [7].
Wisdom from James Pethokoukis on the alleged “infrastructure crisis. [8]”
Private individuals, households, and firms could never get away with behavior so wasteful and perverse as that which government routinely gets away with. Maxim Lott has more [9].