>>9
Government institutions (GIs) can be well run, but they cannot be as well run as a private institution (PI) due to 4 major factors.
1: Distance from the consumer. GIs see consumers as people who complain and as voters, but that is all. There is little incentive to keep going after they fill their governemnt quotas.
2: Difficulty in assessing value. PIs have the market economy to assess the value of their goods and services, GIs do not. In combination with the other factors this factor increases corruption exponentially.
3: You scratch my back, I scratch yours. GIs have to fulfil a wide range of quotas and other bullshit to prove that the government is doing a good job, however the government wants the GI to do a good job and the GI wants the government to think iti s doing a good job. This mentality makes it a lot easier for GIs to get away with corruption. The only time this factor doesn't apply is when a new party is elected and they want to make it seem as though they are going to make changes from the previous regime, however it usually isn't long until they need to "prove" to the public they are doing a good job and this factor becomes steadily stronger.
4: Lack of competition. As is often the case many countries with similiar economies have GIs for similiar roles in the economy and they are pretty much the closest thing to competition and empirical comparison they have. With PIs it's much more blunt. Good business or lose business.
If you really were an MA in economic you would not have ignored these factors.
"Do you really think your streets will be repaired, fires fought, inmates housed, etc. for free"
Yes. For a start emergency services would not be privatised. Besides you have just made a very statist comment, since when were the roads the property of the government? Public property means the property of the people and can be sold to PIs if they convince the public they can charge them for the use of the roads without the need for toll booths. Possibly by electronic tags attached to cars.
>>10
What are you? A totalitarianist? How can the average person buy stock if it gets taxed? Tax dividends and income or something.
Oh and provide stats for the distribution of income and dividends, owning property is a very rough approximation to the amount of income a person gets. A farmer could well own $1000000 of land, but only earn $50000 a year, whilst the local doctor only owns a $200000 home, but earns $70000 a year.
You 2 are terrifying, seriously. You talk as if the population has a choice between aristocracy and communism and they'd better choose communism because unlike aristocracy they might listen to them if they're good. With enough preparation I can cap any politician's head I want, the government is a servant paid to do what the population wants and unless you are part of the emergency services, police or military they don't owe you a thing.
>>12
I would, but I would make sure the police made extra effort to ensure people know the consequences of drugs and that under 18s do not use drugs.
>>13
But they would work, if a business is corrupt, people simply won't use it and it will go bankrupt. The government would be so small the media could focus purely on law enforcement making corruption very difficult.
>>14
link pls