Comment by lone_haxx0r
7 years ago
At least private companies are losing their own earned money when they're inefficient, not someone else's.
7 years ago
At least private companies are losing their own earned money when they're inefficient, not someone else's.
Private companies are also dependent on a highly developed society to make everything they do possible.
There are many reasons that Google and Amazon didn't exist a thousand years ago, and it isn't solely due to the lack of computing technology.
And so it is entirely sensible that everyone should contribute towards keeping the highly developed society functioning as best as it can.
That has no relevance to whether google got money under the threat of violence (government taxation) or whether it’s money that was voluntarily given to them for goods/services.
Google wasting money is no different than my neighbor wasting money. The government wasting money is upsetting because it was taken from me supposedly to help the country.
Your perspective might be different if you pay very little in taxes.
How are dollars I have paid to the government any more mine than dollars I have paid to a company?
The government isn't supposed to run a profit. Therefore it becomes very difficult to know which part of it is wasteful and which isn't. Companies simply fail if they don't make a profit or have an outside funding source.
Not nearly quickly enough to be a curb on wasteful behaviour at large companies, and these are the ones that affect public policy.
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a company is accountable for the dollars you pay to it, and has to provide a commensurate value, or you take your business elsewhere. dollars paid to the government keep coming in no matter how wasteful their practices
That's not how people choose which health insurance policy is offered by their employer, or which private company won the contract to deliver their electricity.
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government has people with guns to force its income stream. corporations do not.
Corporations lobby the government to change laws to boost their profit. Those laws are enforced by guns.
It is a myth that corporations like free markets.
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