A public option, then? In the current climate, I'd prefer public options be not-for-profit (well, I'd prefer they exist at all, but of course it was sniped dead

A public option, then? In the current climate, I'd prefer public options be not-for-profit (well, I'd prefer they exist at all, but of course it was sniped dead during negotiations for the ACA in the case of healthcare), but fair enough. Honestly I'd be fine with the government profiting if it could be tied back to a mechanism that directly reduces a taxpayer's burden, basically "your tax share is reduced by x because total profit from government-run institutions was y" It might even work to incentivize lawmakers to legislate in favor of the profit of such institutions in that they could then tell their constituents that they were responsible for their lower tax burden in a given year.