Target 27 of 31
Today’s target
ABOLISHDOT
Department of Transportation
The roads you pay for are the roads that don’t get fixed.
Official story
What they claim to do
Ensures a safe, efficient and accessible national transportation system.
Ground truth
What they actually do
Distributes fuel-tax revenue through formulas that often reward building new roads over maintaining old ones. Air-traffic-control systems run on aging technology that officials themselves have called outdated, and delays and outages keep making headlines.
The libertarian case
When users pay directly, through tolls, fares and fees, roads and runways get built where people use them and are maintained because the revenue depends on it. Canada privatized its air-traffic control in 1996 and funds it with user fees. Replace the federal formula with user pricing.
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