> So, something that would go a long way towards getting government
> out of our lives and our wallets would be the formation of some
> companies which provided for people all of the services which
> government tries to provide, but does it cheaper and better than the
> government does. Libertarians have been talking about privatizing for
> years now, and there already exist private companies which perform
> basically the same services that government attempts to do. There are
> private schools, private drug testing companies, Consumer Reports and
> so forth. But people still want the government to provide these
> services. Why?
Because no government AFAIK has ever said "find an alternative supplier
for the services we provide and we will reduce your taxes accordingly."
Even the hard-right, allegedly Capitalist governments are shown to be
basically coercive socialists as soon as state taxes are threatened.
Belief that Republicans or Thatcherites are free-market Capitalists is
about as well-founded as belief in flying pigs. Politics and freedom
are practically mutually exclusive, in the sense that politicians are
more or less by definition in the business of regulation, which is the
denial of freedom and emergent order.
Rich.
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