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Infrastructure, Privatization, and Autonomous Vehicles with Clifford Winston

Economics Detective Radio

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Is the Federal Highway Trust Fund a Subsidy?

The report assumes that people's behaviors and their need for highways are fixed in some sense. The allocation of these funds is not based on explicit efficiency considerations, he says. Politically, no one gets elected by saying, look, I maintain your road better as opposed to trying to get those kinds of things done., the author adds.

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