Oct 7, 2021
On this week's conversation, Paul talks to Marc Scribner. Marc is a Senior Transportation Policy Analyst with the Reason Foundation, a free-market think tank.
Marc and Paul discuss the ongoing debate in Washington
over various "infrastructure" bills. They discuss infrastructure
and transportation more broadly and how it is funded. Finally,
they discuss
a new policy brief Marc wrote about America's freight
railroads in which he discusses their tremendous economic
impact (including
in New Mexico), the fact that these railroads build and
maintain their own infrastructure, the Staggers Act which
deregulated freight rail 40 years ago, and the Biden
Administration's efforts to reimpose regulation on America's
freight rail network.