Parking permits
I had to renew my Kensington and Chelsea resident's parking permit today and whilst waiting in the queue I was so bored I found myself reading the care instructions of the seat fabric.It didn't take long. Take covers off, wash at a warm but not hot temperature. Now I was at a loss. An ideal time therefore, I decided, to consider some aspects of libertarianism without wasting valuable time. In particular what a liberarian would do about parking permits.
At first I thought it would be simple. They would be against them. But even libertarians surely wouldn't be so stupid as to have a parking free-for-all?
Perhaps instead they would be in favour of auctioning off current parking spaces to the highest bidder, then allowing the winner to do whatever they wanted with the parking space (as it was 'their land'), as long as it didn't illegally infringe other people. Indeed presumambly a private contractor could buy up parking spaces across London, and then you could buy an annual permit to let you use them. But what would happen if people built flats on them instead?
It began to hurt my head. Looking up however I noticed that the back of the chair in front had a different fabric care instructions that the seat of my chair. Relieved, I went back to more important and relevant matters.
posted by Matthew @ 7/09/2004 12:56:00 PM
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