Originally Posted by
FighterHayabusa
As far as the "government leeches off producers and doesn't produce anything" argument (paraphrased). No, government does not produce anything material, but it does provide services - preferably only services that the private sector does not have incentive to provide.
Actually, the only way incentive is removed is by creating a monopoly and by killing any motive to conduct business with profit. It is blatant folly to proclaim that a government run monopoly created by fiat takes the place of honest competition.
Government has a function, unfortunately it has expanded that function well beyond all reasonable bounds and stiffled the private sector in direct proportion to it's expansion of monopolies. Many states have allowed private MVDs with very good results.
What we are seeing is redistribution and confiscation, not an honest effort to provide better service. Your public schools may be fine, but are all held to the same standard, is performance and merit equal to cost across the system? Could a private option do better? Why limit the right to choose?
How many of us would buy into the Social Security plan if not forced into it? How fast would the private company that offered such a plan be convicted of a felony and shut down?