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Government will never be efficient because the players knows there are free money to grab and efficiency is not the goal of all the decision makers involve.
by ezconnect 5y ago
Government will never be efficient because the players knows there are free money to grab and efficiency is not the goal of all the decision makers involve.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI don't know. In the UK I can submit my taxes online, the whole thing is straightforward even including dividends and capital gains tax. It spits out the calculations for you and avoids needing an accountant. You could do it all manually but why would you when it is so efficient. There is clearly a spectrum here and blindly labelling all government as useless is wrong.
- t0suj4 5y agoThe parent commenter didn't refer to efficiency of tax collection. They refer to the fact that taxes is the pot the government will draw money from whenever any of their enterprises becomes unprofitable. If the pot is too small to fund all the projects they can simply grow out by taxing the populace more. When an unprofitable business in the private sector runs out of investor money it sells all its assets and eventually collapses.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago>The parent commenter didn't refer to efficiency of tax collection. Tax collection is part of government and in this case is an useful counterexample to the endless "all government is bad" messages we regularly hear on HN. >When an unprofitable business in the private sector runs out of investor money it sells all its assets and eventually collapses. Yes, and unpopular governments get voted out (assuming they are democratic).
- cloudier 5y agoIt is easy to believe that “all government is bad” when the only government you’ve interacted with is the US government. Thanks for highlighting a counter example.