A Can of Man
Je suis aware
Sukio, I think you missed those posts where I pretty much championed capitalism to death much to Perseus' annoyance. I believe in capitalism to the core but I realize that it is NOT always the answer.
Here's my take on the American system.
It encourages spending. The goal is to make it easy to earn money and also to encourage people to spend money (or else they face heavier taxation) as a method of distributing the wealth.
For the most part, it's a good system.
However, there are certain services that just essentials where stability is far more valuable and money needs to get to them. Education and healthcare are not just commodities, they are among the things that help improve the country's national power.
If you just go by the pure capitalist argument, you should just cut the crap and disband the entire military and replace it purely with PMCs. Do you have any idea how inefficient the military is in terms of efficient money spending? It's pathetic. But why is the military public/government and not private? Because even when it's running on a loss (i.e. peacetime) you still need it.
Military, police and fire are run by the government so why the hospitals aren't is somewhat beyond me.
The truth is that government run operations are not very efficient. That's not to say that they're bad at their work, lots of government run health care systems are in fact extremely competent but they're not very efficient. It's just the nature of the beast since they are for the most part exempt from real world competition. This is why you have to have public options for only the most essential services and not all (though in a perfect world, every industry would have a public option as well as private companies to choose from... but that's just a pipedream).
Here's my take on the American system.
It encourages spending. The goal is to make it easy to earn money and also to encourage people to spend money (or else they face heavier taxation) as a method of distributing the wealth.
For the most part, it's a good system.
However, there are certain services that just essentials where stability is far more valuable and money needs to get to them. Education and healthcare are not just commodities, they are among the things that help improve the country's national power.
If you just go by the pure capitalist argument, you should just cut the crap and disband the entire military and replace it purely with PMCs. Do you have any idea how inefficient the military is in terms of efficient money spending? It's pathetic. But why is the military public/government and not private? Because even when it's running on a loss (i.e. peacetime) you still need it.
Military, police and fire are run by the government so why the hospitals aren't is somewhat beyond me.
The truth is that government run operations are not very efficient. That's not to say that they're bad at their work, lots of government run health care systems are in fact extremely competent but they're not very efficient. It's just the nature of the beast since they are for the most part exempt from real world competition. This is why you have to have public options for only the most essential services and not all (though in a perfect world, every industry would have a public option as well as private companies to choose from... but that's just a pipedream).