John Semmens

John Semmens worked for the Arizona Department of Transportation (AzDOT) for 32 years. He has authored over 300 articles on transportation issues and was a contributing author to the award-winning book Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads, published by the Independent Institute. He is currently available for transportation consulting work.

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Mises Daily John Semmens
As an eyewitness with over three decades of inside, close-up observation, I can assure readers that every libertarian criticism that has been leveled at government is true. But ideologues devoted to big government comprise only a small minority of those occupying public-sector positions. The rest are almost invariably unwilling to lift a finger on behalf of restraining the growth of government.