In many cases they absolutely do. If not directly, which many of the doctors will do a military hitch for it, same for attorneys, then indirectly through debt forgiveness on college loans.
Wait what? Which markets are self regulating..... Who si goign to manage the saftey boards and who will set the standards? You going to rely on industry to do that for you? If so, we all know how that’s going to end. The gov’t has always managed and monitored public travel - even int he good ole days of steam travel, the gov’t had an overnight role.
Absolutely not. There are areas where Govt is needed. You’re trying to make this into an argument of absolutes as pretending he or I are arguing for absolutism with respect to capitalism. We’ve shown it alone will corrupt. Socialism and Communism has shown the same in the other direction. There is a balance. We’re currently tilted in my opinion in the wrong direction with too much Govt.
First of all, I never said you favored less competition....you’re not being anywhere close to being accurate. Go back and re-read what I posted. Additionally you said this “ If we allowed true free competition, many would not be around”. So that statement alone means you acknowledge that an unregulated market place would lead to reduced competition....
You are correct, it would, however, part of what plays into that is favorable legislation that benefits the larger corporations on the backs of their lobbying arms working with Politicians. It’s kind of why we all, Corporations have PACs that we contribute into as employees.
Is there too much gov’t in our lives...yeah sure....freely admit that. However, there are programs that the gov’t and only the gov’t can administer and one has to apply some logic and critical thinking to the problem...because tossing logic and common sense out the window to support an ideology is unacceptable
Millions of people who are licensed by their gov’t get into cars and go about their business.......you left out a critical component of your statement..oh and that licensing is managed by _________________________ (you fill in the blank)
I don’t disagree. To the original example of ATC though, those individuals could easily be privatized.
And who pays for these air traffic controllers? Do the airlines do that or someone else?
The same people that are doing it now, are the same ones that would be acting as screeners after it was re-privatized....so I don’t see how things would change. Also, I see great benefits to federal agencies exchanging information and preventing the bad guys from getting on aeroplanes
It would likely be done through an Open Sourced solicitation the same as all Govt contracting for service contracts. In the end, you have Govt involvement just to a much much lesser degree. That’s funded through the budget and ultimately we the tax payer pay for it.
We already share a lot of information from the private side to Govt. This example is in play across a lot of different areas.
It’s almost like the entire reason Govt employs the private sector is because the private sector does it more efficiently and effectively. And this fvcking thing votes. Shewwww
ROTC programs in college? Paid.
