>>16
Wow you really have no idea how the real world works do you?
In a pure unregulated capitalist society if there is no profit to be made doing something then it won't be done.
Without the government interference you so despise we'd still be living in the bad old days of the industrial revolution.
You would prefer the government to stay away from businesses?
Say hello to the return of huge numbers of industrial accidents maiming and killing people, child labor, highly predatory lending practices (much worse than today's), mandatory 12 hour workdays with no overtime pay, 60 to 72 hour work weeks, contaminated food and drugs, weight and measure fraud, no job security if you fall ill, strike breakers, company "police" (hired thugs), and massive pollution to name just a small portion of what businesses have done in the past and would still be doing if the hated government hadn't FORCED them to stop.
These are the very real historical and in many parts of the world still current abuses that gave rise to communism.
As for your complaint about free services funded by taxes-
"And they shouldn't exist, as inferior public entities that everyone has to support financially whether they use them or not when the superior private entities of LFC that are only supported financially by their clients can exist."
How exactly can poor clients pay for them? How else can a poor inner city district get trash service or safe housing or even clean water ?
The simple fact of the matter is that you apparently view those less fortunate than you as some kind of lower life form. Why would anyone try to make a business providing free or low cost services to anyone? It isn't a viable business plan. Who cares if the poor can't afford healthcare or education beyond grammar school or safe food. It doesn't concern you, you have enough money to afford to live with dignity.
You don't want to contribute to society as a whole, just your little portion of it. Because that's what modern taxation is. It's how the government takes a small portion of EVERYONE'S income and uses it to keep running the entire society that you are a citizen of. Yes the rich pay a larger percentage, and those who can pay least will get the most benefit.
But the fact is that that is the price you pay to live in a society where the poor can improve themselves. A society where you don't have to scrutinize every measure of food or medicine for contaminants, dilution, efficacy or short weights. A society where threats to your livelihood, be it through bad business choices, economic shifts or competition will not mean starving in the street.
Last but not least it's the price you pay to live in a society without rank upon rank of millions of malnourished uneducated peasantry with nothing to lose planning a bloody revolution against those who exploit them for their own profit. Which, of course, is how most modern societies came about.