THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTROVERSY OVER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN TRANSPORTATION By Dennis Polhill Research assistance by Dominque Tarpey and Steve McWhirter Presented at American Legislative Exchange Council Seattle, Washington July 2004 At least…
Category: Role of Government
Budget Crisis: Asking the Right Questions
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, Nathan PawlickiThe tax spenders (politicians, lobbyists, and special interest groups) claim that Colorado has a budget crisis. They say the $150 million shortfall in the $15.2 billion…
Congress Should Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Opinion Editorial By Dennis PolhillWhat is wrong with this picture? Traffic congestion is the worst ever and is worsening. Congestion imposes costs that exceed the cost to eliminate it. Half of the…
End Authoritarian Socialist Public Policy
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill RTD’s FasTracks boondoggle is about much more than wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and the implementation of destructive policies. It is about increasing government control over people…
What Coloradans Can Learn from Communists
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, Orogdol Sanjaasuren The 20th century gave witness to a Titanic ideological struggle between collectivism and property rights. The 1990s closed the century with dramatic events symbolizing the…
Don’t Be Confused by the Ambiguous Semantics of Privatization
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill As a fundamental rule of negotiation and basic courtesy, it is counterproductive to offend ones adversary when first introduced. The predictably defensive reaction among government managers ostracizes…
Monorail to Vail: An Orgy of Collectivist Abuse
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill The failed monorail proposal contained interesting aspects, one of them being the absurdity of its discussion as a viable proposal. Voters wisely recognized the dubious and speculative…
RTD Is Afraid of Private Sector Competition
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill, Matthew Edgar The Regional Transportation District (RTD) will not allow Coloradans to have real transit solutions such as jitney service. A jitney is a privately owned minibus…
Predatory Government
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill The recent bankruptcy and closure of Sunset Beach Fitness and Racquet Club in Golden is a reminder that the laws of economics are real and that our…
The Transportation Industrial Complex
Opinion Editorial By Dennis Polhill Elementary school students learn the opposite of politics. The Scientific Method, both used in school and required in Science Fair projects, mandates that a proposition, idea, question…