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Makes it hard to have any hope for the future of our politics, because this is the case at all levels these days. Everything political is just someone’s money-m
by dmvdoug 3y ago
Makes it hard to have any hope for the future of our politics, because this is the case at all levels these days. Everything political is just someone’s money-making scheme at the public’s expense. But hey, “greed is good,” right?
- cratermoon 3y agoBack in the 80s it was popular to privatize all kinds of government functions, on the basis of the claim that the free market would provide better solutions. Somehow the scope of the transfer of money from taxpayers to private industry was not seen as distorting the market. At least, not as much a distortion as having the services be provided directly by the government.