Dear India Viola,
You make good points about true costs to society associated with
personal transportation vehicles. And you point out the complexity
involved in any economic "cost benefit" analysis. If we did not have
personal transport vehicles and trucks, population and employment
locations would have evolved differently in the last hundred years.
Certainly many on this site would applaud such a different turn of events.
Our redistribution of incomes and wealth have followed patterns which
might have evolved differently under other societies, also. I have not
had children, yet I have had to pay for the education of others through
real estate taxes all my life. That is a big item in my personal
finances. Yet that is quite accepted as something American society
should do.
With State government largely centralized in Madison and paying premium
salaries and benefits, I would expect that applicants commute from great
distances for those opportunities each day. Should they be asked to
sell everything and move to the isthmus? Or should the State be asked
to atomize their operations all over the geography?
As you said, it would be a difficult calculation, particularly if the
benefits were included.
Eric
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