January 2, 2009

The Usefulness of ‘Libertarians’

From the AP:

“I’m not excited about a gas tax increase, but the reality is our current gas tax doesn’t pay for upkeep of the system we have now,” said Adrian Moore, vice president of the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank in Los Angeles, and a member of the highway revenue commission. “We can either let the roads go to hell or we can pay more.”

Thanks to Gary North.

UPDATE When McCain proposed a temporary abolition of the federal gasoline tax, Reason was horrified. Say, isn’t asphalt a petroleum product?