Controversies in Building the Eisenhower Interstate System
The pattern of anti-statist belief that governments invariably threaten individual liberty, has been deeply rooted in the American psyche, and could regularly stymy efforts aimed at reform.
Here is the brief introduction to some anti-statist ideologies in building the great project.
The creation of the Eisenhower Interstate System, or known as the Interstate Highway System, is one of the greatest public works projects in history.
In fact, before the Eisenhower administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. Under FDR, the American federal government assumed new and powerful roles in the nation’s economy, in its corporate life, and in the health, welfare, and well-being of its citizens.
Former President Dwight Eisenhower reimagined America’s transportation infrastructure with the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.
For the Eisenhower administration, the interstate highway system’s development called for a design of a politically acceptable funding mechanism capable of making capital into pavement.
As the Chamber of Commerce argued that “a free-market system can be made to coordinate more efficiently, and do a…
