Steve Buckstein penned a brief but cogent argument against Socialism Central Planning, but it could do with expansion.  The term, "Central planning" appears to suggest that "planning" is centralized - when in fact what we actually have in Oregon is a serious glut of "planners".  Under a central "planning" system, the "planners" would all be corralled by the state, as was the case in the Soviet Union and which is largely still the case in China.  By contrast, what we have here are herds of "planners" roaming throughout the governmental sectors.  We have "planners" at the state level, "planners" at the county level, "planners" at the city level - and at least in Portland, entire herds of "planners" at the regional level and dozens more at the transit agency level.  Frankly, it's time to thin the herds.

Basically, they all agree that roads and cars are bad.  They all agree that environmental overlays are good.  And they all believe that the rest of us are too stupid to know what is "best" for us, so it's their job to "plan" and regulate ever-increasing aspects of everyday life.

Technically, this isn't "Central planning", because "planners' from so many agencies are involved.  However, the collective mindset of these "planners" yields the same result, from a purely functional perspective.

This is the "vision" of the Metropolitan Service District (once known as MSD until a PR consultant told them that "METRO" was much snazzier).  At the top of their illustration, you have a bus.  People walking.  Fuehrer down, people riding bicycles, and still fuehrer down, somebody kayaking. 

Their own illustration shows their hard-wired bias against cars and trucks; neither of which appears in their happy little vision of Utopia.  Apparently, according to METRO's legion of "planners", goods and services simply appear of their own accord, as if by magic.  People are likely born with a bicycle or kayak attached, and food simply appears on the plate (which itself also appears magically).  Toilet paper is apparently not required in this new world, either.  Birdies are everywhere, and the duckies and the bunnies hold hands and dance around the maypole while singing "Everything Is Beautiful".

Ain't "planning" grand?