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Well, okay, it was last week, but still, this is too priceless:
Britain has been rationing things since 1945. In America, we don't ration things.
-- NY Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (D-Bronx), explaining why London's congestion pricing won't work in the U.S.
I'm pretty sure the U.S. also engaged in rationing during WWII, for what it's worth.
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It's just incredibly stupid on so many levels - rationing is effectively what we ARE doing with "free"ways. Well, in a sense; it's actually even more accurate to say we're emulating the Soviets - artificially low (or no) prices, and very long lines.
We are not rationing (well in the sense M1ek says yes we are) and it will be our downfall. Water, Transport, Energy...
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