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Is this a trick question?Should government exist... at all?
Given enough time we may shed the need for government but considering most of our current issues are problems the Romans also faced at one time or another, I suspect it'll be a very long time indeed.
What problems would you say are only able to be solved by government?
What problem is unable to be solved?I don't think that it's unable to be solved, so much as incredibly unlikely without some form of minimal governing body.
What problems would you say are only able to be solved by government?
At the current time with the current mindset of people? Or in some Lala Land that exists only in some people's minds?What problems would you say are only able to be solved by government?
Should government exist... at all?
Somehow I don't picture businesses or homeowners digging deep to build & maintaine the inferstucture (roads, watermains etc.) that passes by their property, or the bridge to the otherside of the river. Of course the Government ain't doin' all that great at it right now. Wha private enterprise would have built, oh say, Hoover Damn? TheLincoln Tunnel?
Yeah we need a functional Government.
A plea to congressional R's, Vote Yea on the highway Bill!
At the current time with the current mindset of people? Or in some Lala Land that exists only in some people's minds?
Privatizing the functions of government really isn't doing away with government. That's just swapping government inefficiency for a profit margin, which is generally larger than the inefficiency.
Okay, that's a good answer. So you're saying that only the government is capable of solving the problem of building roads, water mains, bridges, tunnels, and dams.
Yes, at the current time, what problems would you say are only able to be solved by government?
What problem is unable to be solved?
Correcting externalities on multiple parties cased by voluntary trade.
No not at all, but they are the only entity that would do it. Pay for it, I mean. Taxes are for the public works such as these, civilians often do the calculations, labor etc.
It would be absurd to take up a collection to build a massive project, like a congregation does to build a church, for example.
Government is the only one who wold be able, thus creating Living wage jobs, the workers will be Tax Payers & roll on.
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