{"id":5342,"date":"2026-03-14T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=5338"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:43:12","slug":"but-who-will-build-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/but-who-will-build-the-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"But Who Will Build The Roads?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been thinking about this common anti-Libertarian trope quite a bit as this ongoing situation with DC Water continues. Description of the trope is courtesy the Mises folks<\/a>, who meet the mark some the time, but far from often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sewer is not a road. In fact, I’d say that proper wastewater treatment is more important to the protection of life and property than a road ever could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, a collective effort to provide those protections can be justified I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why the hell, then, does government need to run it in perpetuity? I could say the same of the now-not-getting-paid TSA who are all Federal employees thanks to Harry Reid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beltway Swamp media has been doing a job that’s a lot like what was spilled into the Potomac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a once-in-a-lifetime accident<\/a>. Of course, the lawsuits<\/a> are finally starting, but I really can’t find anything about who’s been disciplined for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t really care who was at fault. A sternly-worded letter of reprimand is insufficient. Someone, probably lots of people, should have to find different employment because of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if we ignore the issue, maybe it’ll float out into the Bay, and nobody will remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about this common anti-Libertarian trope quite a bit as this ongoing situation with DC Water continues. Description of the trope is courtesy the Mises folks, who meet the mark some the time, but far from often. A sewer is not a road. In fact, I’d say that proper wastewater treatment is more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whar-covid-19-whar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}