Transportation
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The LP Platform Currently Reads
The Issue: Government interference in transportation
is characterized by monopolistic restriction, corruption and gross inefficiency.
We condemn the re-cartelization of commercial aviation by the Federal Aviation
Administration via rationing of take-off and landing rights and controlling
scheduling in the name of safety.
The Principle: The transportation industry
should not be treated differently from any other industry, and should be governed
by free markets and held to strict liability.
Solutions: We call for the dissolution
of all government agencies concerned with transportation -- including the
Department of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal
Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board, the Coast
Guard, and the Federal Maritime Commission -- and the transfer of their legitimate
functions to competitive private firms. We demand the return of America's
railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of airports,
air traffic control systems, public roads and the national highway system.
Transitional Action: As interim measures,
we advocate an immediate end to government regulation of private transit organizations
and to governmental favors to the transportation industry. In particular,
we support the immediate repeal of all laws restricting transit competition
such as the granting of taxicab and bus monopolies and the prohibition of
private jitney services. We urge immediate deregulation of the trucking industry.
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