Yeah, this sounds nice in theory. And, I am certainly not denying that there are certain things that a market economy can do more efficiently than government. But, I think the efficiency of companies in a market economy tends to get exagerated and the inefficiency of government tends to get exagerated too. (In fact, there have been cases of people on this message board making claims about government waste that turned out to be based on pretty ludicrous assumptions or interpretations once we actually looked into them.)
I mean, I work for a big company that is certainly feeling the pressure from market forces in ways that it didn’t used to when it effectively almost had a monopoly. And, while these market forces may have pressured it to become more efficient in some ways, it has also pressured it to do some very stupid things because corporations, like governments, have a bureaucracy so there’s a lot of tendency for people to just shift costs away from the budgets they control to other people’s budgets. (This is, of course, most effective when you shift it from a cost that is easy to measure and highly concentrated in one area to one that is diffuse and very hard to measure.) And, if my corporation is fated to die, it is certainly taking a long time to do so!
And, on the other side of things, I think government does have considerable pressures on it to be more efficient. They may not be as large pressures as the market provides but they are there. And, of course, with government you have certain advantages, one being that you don’t end up paying money into the hands of a few extraordinarily overpaid people at the top and to “profit” of the investors.
) this is irrelevant. The government does not have that right, moraly.