(February 1, 2018 at 5:36 pm)Khemikal Wrote: We find ourselves realizing that "free market" interests are the most efficient agents of government corruption yet discovered by man, and still there's this idea that tilting the scales towards the abuser will somehow reduce the abuse?
All that would do is let them keep more of their blood money..you know, the shit they spend buying politicians?
"Lowering costs" is a euphemism for "impoverishing labor". Not a reason to hand them the keys to a kingdom that they at least have to rent or buy, in the face of competition, no less....at present.
I always find it funny how hardcore laissez faire or radical Ancaps are the first to boast the virtue of competition. But the last people they seem to want to compete with are public services . They always boast about more choices but they are only ever their choices .
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