CARPE DIEM
Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Sunday, November 16, 2008
About Me
- Name: Mark J. Perry
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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2 Comments:
Interesting that just a few years ago cars were evil according to lefties. Now we have to bail them out. Wouldn't the earth breath a sigh of relief if they went bankrupt. We have so many alternatives nowadays. With light rail and bus rapid transit, no one needs a car. It will only take a little adapting, like doing everything on the hour and not after 7pm on Sundays. We just need to encourage more people to move into the city.
"We have so many alternatives nowadays. With light rail and bus rapid transit, no one needs a car"...
What?!?!
Are you some sort of socialist?
What happened to choice?
Well mass transit would be fine and all IF the riders of mass transit paid their OWN way but they don't...
Highway Trust Fund revenues were first allocated to mass transit in the Surface Transportation Act of 1982, when Congress raised the gas tax from four cents per gallon to nine cents per gallon and dedicated one cent, or 20 percent, of the increase to the newly-established Mass Transit Account
Mass transit is just more pandering to the urban parasite...
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