Conservatives and libertarians "hate fast trains and efficient airports for the same reason that seventeenth century Protestants hate the beautiful Baroque churches of Rome when they saw them: they were luxurious symbols of an earthly power that they despised... We don't have a better infrastructure or decent elementary education exactly because any people are willing to sacrifice faster movement between our great cities or better informed children, in support of their belief that the government should always be given as little money as possible."
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