So do you believe the government should have never built the Interstate Highway System? I mean, you know, considering the infrastructure never really had any demand despite the auto industry capturing government, destroying the streetcar system, and making it happen under the argument of “national security,” “personal freedom,” and the second to the last instance of manifest destiny. The fact of the matter remains that government intervention in the market not only created most of our infrastructure, which private enterprise takes for granted, but the modern mortgage — from which our consumption society thrives upon. Hayek remains a lunatic.

HA HA! I think the inverse would also be true insofar as with the Koch’s lobbying for public policy which directly benefits their private and/or ideological goals. You can’t argue against the notion that Rex won’t benefit either, in the short run at least, if the earnings tax was abolished. Will you people come up with some insightful arguments instead of this elementary crap that even an intoxicated socialist can throw in your face? This statement also applies to any selfish “rational” group or individual looking out for their interests and as I recall that’s the basis for capitalism. Like the Wall Street pirates which crashed our economy thanks to the neoliberial rhetoric of Friedman, Reagan, and Greenspan.