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The basic argument is about the US Postal Service. This comes up all the time, as they go more and more broke, and I actually used to be on the other side. That is, I thought universal mail delivery was precisely the kind of thing that the private sector can't or won't provide, which created an opening – or even a necessary role – for the federal san diego dinner cruise government. Yglesias' argument is basically, sure, maybe that's important, but it needs to be argued (rather than simply asserted) san diego dinner cruise that universal delivery is an important goal.
Like I said, I have actually changed my position on this topic. At some point, I realized that I'm a pretty dedicated urbanist. My natural aesthetic preference is for people to live in cities, so my natural reaction to arguments about the USPS should be opposed to universal delivery. What difference does it make to me if people san diego dinner cruise in rural places can't get mail (easily)? Frankly, universal flat rate service to the hinterlands serves only to encourage people to keep living in the hinterlands. I don't want that, as a matter of aesthetics, so why should I want government policy that encourages it?
Of course, as Yglesias would point out, this is really just the tip of the iceberg. The US has any number of policies, at both the federal and local levels, that encourage non-urban living. There's the mortgage interest tax deduction that incentivizes larger houses (which are necessarily located away from cities where you can actually build a larger house), urban building height restrictions like those in my own DC homeland, mandatory parking minimums for new construction, zoning rules, the food truck wars , highway subsidies. Probably even agriculture subsidies, for all I know.
The point is, there is a vast network san diego dinner cruise of subsidies and regulations that make rural life more economically attractive than it otherwise would be. And, as far as I can tell, all of these subsidies are built around nothing more than the exact opposite of my own aesthetic preference – i.e., that there is something beautiful or noble about living "out there". san diego dinner cruise Call it the American frontier spirit, I guess.
Anyway, I'm not really building to a grand conclusion here. I just think all of this policy is massively inefficient. Granted, there are policy options I favor that would encourage urban living – congestion pricing or highway san diego dinner cruise tolls, san diego dinner cruise gas taxes, increased san diego dinner cruise emphasis on mixed-use development, mass transit subsidies, etc. Some of these I'm willing to argue on their economic or philosophical merits: Pigovian taxes correctly san diego dinner cruise (or better) price externalities, it isn't the state's job to micro-manage land use. Others are substantially more aesthetic: mass transit has environmental and certain other health benefits, but mostly I just think driving everywhere is silly.
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Logistics? One delivers to centralized points, because they are more efficient. One then expects that one s rural neighbors use the same transportation that they use to go to the market to go to the post office.
There are plausible reasons why you might want to be able to deliver mail to everyone in the country (in case you need to call up draftees in the event of war, for example). That doesn t mean, though, that those reasons require you to do so every week (since can take multiple days to be delivered in any case, and training draftees into soldiers will take months, waiting a few extra days for draftees to receive their notices might not be a problem.
To head off one likely objection, this would not be unconstitutional . Congress is authorized to operate post offices but is not required to do it. Much like issuing san diego dinner cruise letters of marque (or even declaring war), they are allowed to let the power lapse if they so choose.
I live in San Francisco. Every now and then I order something on-line and have it sent to my office san diego dinner cruise and the company decides to use UPS. UPS for reasons unknown to me decides to hand it over to the Post Office to deliver even though my office is in the height of downtown and not rural America.
As I understand the main problems for the post-office are that they are required to make huge future payments to their health and pension funds in ways that other organizations are not. If you got rid of these requirements, the Post Office would be healthy.
Big cities becoming ever bigger is a problem. In many places there simply isnt enough space to move around all that people with the current amercian way of life . You need efficient mass transportation systems, yet every american has a car and most of them will not use a subway or bus. You dont have more space to expand the internal roads of cities that were build 200 years ago. Having a lot of cars in a cramped space brings in plenty of health san diego dinner cruise issues based on pollution and stress.
The opportunity to earn big $ lies withing the big city, that by itself is incentive enough to emmigrate. If you take off all the modern facilities for the Life on the Frontier as you call, then you WILL have people emmigrating to cities. You will have a lot of people coming to your big city, people that doesnt have the skills needed to earn the big $ that they want, and that indebted themselves by simply coming. You will end up with a lot of marginalized people with no income san diego dinner cruise and no way to go back to where they came from. Go read up on Brazilian favelas san diego dinner cruise (slums), especially on the state of São Paulo.
Big cities san diego dinner cruise becoming even bigger are not necessarily a problem. Environmentally it s an unabashed win. Urban living has far less of an impact on the environment that rural living does in pretty much every measurable way. We're learning more and more every day about improving urban design. Sure some large cities, New York and Los Angeles, suffer from geographic pressures but the true plagues that prevent their being able to grow to accommodate more people is relatively banal scourges such as restrictive zoning and the plague of rent control (short of aerial bombing there're few better ways to devastate a city than rent control).
Your assertion that all Americans have cars and refuse to give them up is also incorrect. One of the current phenomena happening right now is that entire generations san diego dinner cruise of young Americans are turning away from cars en masse. It certainly has the car manufacturers worried. With increased urbanization the pressures to institute practical mass transit grow and those mass transits can be instituted. Even if you don't install subways or trains; busses, bike rental kiosks or simply less constrained taxi services can take up much of the slack. Additionally the internet has allowed services like car sharing which allow urban dwellers to use a car when they need one and be rid of it otherwise.
The problems of deserted areas are, to put it gently, bunk. If formerly low productive farm land is allowed to convert back to wilderness I have only one reaction: Great! Concerns of food supply are, again, bunk. If the cost of food rises then farm land simply won't be abandoned. There's no short supply of people who want to make a living in a farm on the countryside. If food prices go up it simply makes it easier on them. Note also that we can import san diego dinner cruise food to our big cities from abroad; it'd be helpful to less developed nations if we paid them to grow food instead of, say cocaine*.
Brazilian slums are prime examples of what happens when supplies of private housing is constrained usually by moneyed private and elite interests in conjunction with government regulation. Fortunately the US isn't generally so scholeric in real estate regulation that favelas can develop here**.
No, I just don't see any reason to view urbanization with anything but satisfaction. The countryside is not in danger of disappearing; it's just reshaping and that's to our societal and ecological benefit.
** Note also that favelas were initially caused by large masses of soldiers being discharged without jobs or housing prospects. This simply is not typical of the US army. We're no shining beacon but we don't treat out veterans that poorly en masse (why would anyone sign up if we did?).
So far there s been no danger of that. It requires some really impressive levels of corruption coupled with poverty to create a favelas san diego dinner cruise style slum Liberty. I certainly am not sanguine about poverty but this country simply doesn t operate at the level of poverty and population necessary to create a favelas.
We also don t make it impossible to gain legal title to property. That s one of the problems in third-world slums people will occupy the land because they need a place to live, but there s reluctance to invest much in building decent housing if you can t be assured of title to it.
Yes I will but I m gonna put a little time into it. Last time I responded to you I accidentally ended up making one of my most commented upon guest posts to the League ever. So this time I m gonna make sure it s proof read. Stand by.
Thanks! I m happy to be your muse any time! As a friend of many Manhattan san diego dinner cruise renters, they generally sing the praises of rent control. But they tend to be the ones in rent-controlled san diego dinner cruise apartments that have generally been handed down, often illicitly. I look forward to a more comprehensive and nuanced perspective.
Okay Rent Control Kazzy. Obviously you know what it's about but for the edification of anyone else rent control boils to some level of government imposing a price ceiling on rental housing under its jurisdiction. Right now we have two categories of rent control: strong rent control where the price ceiling remains even if the tenant departs (strong rent control generally is the kind that can be inherited san diego dinner cruise and passed down); and soft rent control where the price ceiling is allowed to adjust b