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Re: The Space Industry: An example of why governments fail and freedom prevails.
by
rainingbitcoins
on 27/07/2011, 05:44:39 UTC
Why do you assume that in a world without a parasitic State, that everyone would be worse off?

Do you have any idea how much money the Government takes, before you even see it? How much what you DO get to see is watered down by inflation? How much the minimum wage inflates the unemployment levels, and how much more leverage that gives employers?

Do you have any idea how much money you're going to spend on all of the newly privatized and profit-oriented services now that the government is no longer providing them? You'll also be paying for all of their advertising, of course, for services that didn't used to need advertisement, but thanks to the totally efficient free market, you're now paying companies billions to watch their commercials. And for duplicated efforts by competitors that erase the economies of scale enjoyed by government services. Somehow that's supposed to be more efficient and better for society than using that money to pay state workers who get a fair wage, benefits, and retirement? I know which one I'd rather my money go to.

“I think the entire government should be privatized. Chuck E. Cheese could run the parks; everything operated by tokens. Drop in a token, go on the swingset. Drop in another token, take a walk. Drop in a token, look at a duck.” - Ron Swanson from Parks & Recreation

I, for one, can't wait for the day when state parks have advertisements for tampons and Coke nailed to the trees!