Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] What's the LP position on this? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:12:47 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong Perhaps I should not have used "local" . Generally the movement is to large specialized operating companies running the local "natural" geographic monopoly structures . Common examples are water , cable and power . And for that matter roads . It boggles me how anybody thinks local road networks will ever be anything other than essentially monopoly maintained with assessments in some manner on the residents of the area . On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:53:30 -0500, Blay Tarnoff wrote: >=A0What business has ever "converged" to a local monopoly? > >=A0Blay >=A0----------------------------------------- > >=A0Bob Armstrong wrote: >=A0> >=A0>=A0I think the notion of privatizing the roads , in general ,= is >=A0>=A0a fantasy . If they were in some region , their maintenance >=A0>=A0would almost surely converge to a local monopoly - like= utilities >=A0>=A0generally are . >=A0> >=A0>=A0On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:45:27 -0500, Gary Popkin wrote: >=A0>=A0>=A0>From: "greghevia" >=A0>=A0>=A0>Point 1: Wouldn't privatization of roads just turn all our= highways >=A0>=A0>=A0>into one big line for the toll booth? >=A0>=A0> >=A0>=A0>=A0If government got its fat ass out of the way, private= enterprise would ... --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm