| ManusJustus said:
The most important public goods that the government provides are defense, justics, and transportation. Its not a perfect system, but its the only system that works, and without the government providing them we simply would not have them. Can you imagine our entire transportation infrastructure being dirt roads? That is the best the private market would provide us, as only the government can provide such a public good. We would literally go back to the Dark Ages, which was the last time Western civilization moved away from government in favor of privitization. |
Being that many cities and states/provinces already contract a large portion of the construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure to private companies without any negative consequences, why would contracting out the production and maintenance of road infrastructure lead to humans devolving to the dark ages?
