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Originally Posted by liberty1776
This is even worse than the current system!
Under my system there is no public sector. Everthing is done in the private sector. The private sector can do things MUCH better than the state.
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A dangerous, incorrect, and unproven assumption.
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Originally Posted by liberty1776
Don't freak out when you hear that I want to privitize national defense. It only sounds wierd because we are not used to it. If shoes were currently in the public sector, and I proposed to have them provided in the private sector, you might say, "Hey, how are poor people going to get shoes? How will we know what shoes to make? How will we know how many to make?" These are all questions that the market will answer for defense.
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I cannot believe you are seriously suggesting this. Corporations will NEVER be able to handle things like defense. If we allowed them to, we would have thousands of separate private armies all across the world, with nothing unifying them. He;;. they'd probably end up fighting each other. There would be noone to make sure that a corporation doesn't just go and drop atom bombs on someone. CEO's would decide who, where, and when to fight; and few of them would make the same decisions. It would be complete chaos. That suggestion is downright retarded.
Modern History tells us that more public industry and more regulation of the free market will lead to economic prosperity. See "New Deal".
The market is not motivated to meet the needs of the people. The market is motivated only to make money, and to do so by any means possible; even if it means creating an inferior product and marketing it as superior. Thus, a body is needed to provide public industry for the people and regulate the "free" market.
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Originally Posted by liberty1776
The private market ALWAYS does things better than the state- ALWAYS.
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Slon and I had a similar argument earlier. If the private market "ALWAYS" does things better than public industry, explain the superiority of the Soviet AK-47 as compared to similar military guns created by private industry at that time.
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Originally Posted by liberty1776
Would you want gov't in charge of making your clothes? Probably not, so why do you want it in charge of defense?
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So that I actually have a say in what is done to defend me.