Market Urbanism

One of my favorite new blogs, Rationalitate brought up a topic that I have spent much time thinking about, The Great Depression and Public Roads:
In a time before the widespread adoption of income and sales taxes, property taxes made up the lion’s share of local government revenues: two-thirds of all revenue according to Dick Netzer, [...]

May 18th, 2008 | Tags: automobile, Eisenhower, great depression, highways, history, infrastructure, Interstate Highway System, new deal, Oil, Roosevelt | Category: Transportation | Leave a comment