If you can privatise water, you can privatise anything. What type of ownership models are there?
Does Privatisation work?You think we would have learnt from Russia that government doesn't run things well. Government is the problem not the solution.
Of the options above.. Option 1) Option 2) Option 3) Option 4) Private business works all the time, its just a bit haphazard the way it goes about it. Think about all the things you get from the private sector at low prices like: eye laser surgery, food, clothes. IT has been constantly demonstrated in countries around the world, when the government provides these, there tend to be long lines and rationing. "Virtually all potential problems facing private prisons have close counterparts among the problems troubling prisons run directly by government. All prisons, both public and private, face challenges in the areas of authority, legitimacy, procedural justice, accountability, liability, cost, security, safety, corruptibility, and so on. They face these challenges primarily because of the nature of their mission, not because of their incorporation as public or private." Common mistake from socialists on capitalists position of privatisationNot socialised, not at allIf you’re against state-run trains, you’re against trains, if you’re against state-run hospitals, you’re against hospitals and so on. This is clearly a fallacy or misrepresentation
Not socialised, not good serviceIf charging nothing at the point of use is the apotheosis of a good service, then socialists could be right. But, of course, nothing is free, since it is ultimately paid for by someone somewhere. If, however, a good service is about offering the best quality for the lowest price, then the free market wins over time.
Government cannot be part of a privatised solution if it was part of the problemNot socialised, no goodQuote 998 “A generation ago in Britain people thought that only the state could deliver mail, connect telephone calls, or collect the garbage, among the dozens of activities it ran. Private businesses do them now.” -- Masden Pirie Essentially the Left hates to think that the type of person who is good at making money could be good at anything else - particularly anything to do with enriching the soul, satisfying our aesthetic tastes or increasing happiness. They prefer to think that this is the strength of clever, compassionate people like them, rather than the cocksure business types who get their backs up.
Morality of state ownershipThe basis for this is that government has the power to tax and it should not use that to compete with those whom it taxes. When the public are asked if they want to have state ownership, they should always be asked if they want it even if quality goes down.
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