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To: JRandomFreeper
Why is the government a better owner than a private party?

Everything about paying the government "owner" is right; nobody gets a free ride.

I was just saying that an anarcho-capitalist believes there is no need for a government because everything can be done as well or better by the private sector.

I wouldn't personally go as quite far as an outright AC with the total elimination of government, but most things would be better provided by private hands. The reason being that it would provide a truer cost and benefit without the usual government subsidies, breaks, and regulation that distorts the market.

There is also the well known commons problem where if everyone owns something, then no one owns it or cares about it. Owners of private property will protect it in their own interest.

By the way, I've always thought the best way to save an endangered species like tigers for instance, would be to sell them to someone so that they have a financial interest in breeding them and of course selling body parts to the Chinese for whatever they do with them.

30 posted on 05/26/2011 7:00:33 PM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: seowulf
I thought that's what our forefathers did back in the 1700's. That is; limit the government to certain functions, and no more.

Government has grown stupid large since then. I propose we scale federal government back to what the Constitution permits, and deny them any power outside of those clearly defined limits.

Call me crazy, but I think it would work.

/johnny

31 posted on 05/26/2011 7:48:21 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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