>Every 'appropriately funded' govt service I've used has been miles away better than the equivalent private service... Strange because my experience has been t

>Every 'appropriately funded' govt service I've used has been miles away better than the equivalent private service... Strange because my experience has been the exact opposite in every case, with the exception of police - and that's only because I don't have an immediate proxy. That private industry provides alternatives to these public goods and does them better is an indictment of the competence of our government, and shouldn't be viewed as an endorsement or evidence in favor of free markets for everything. These markets emerge because of government incompetence, not because of corruption or because the market is inherently "better".