Private industry saves 8MM a year operating the infrastructure vs the government equivalent.. I can believe that... what you ignore though, is where was the private industry when that water system was needed so that Atlanta could grow and be a safer place? Were they finding the money to build that infrastructure privately ? Hell no, THEY NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!
The system that keeps track of your deed and property btw is a neccessary function if you want private property... I suppose you would prefer a communist state? You can deride government all day long, fact is, even though you don't want to recognize or appreciate it, the government you hate so much allows you a life that most on this planet will never see. That's the beauty of america... you can be ignorant of what you have and still be free to rant.
All right let's show your ignorance. Typically infrastructure improvements are financed through bonds. This is PRIVATE money being loaned to government at a sweetheart interest rate that government cuts for itself by making the interest tax exempt (unless of course you qualify for the AMT, but that's another subject). There is no reason that a private company couldn't do exactly the same thing, and wouldn't have to finance all of the exotic vacations and big tacket expense items that the government bureaucrats treat themselves to at our expense. Oddly enough private property existed long before county records offices came into being.
the government you hate so much allows you a life that most on this planet will never see.
Utter horse sh!t. I don't so much deride government as hold its venal plundering pompous bureaucrats who feel self qualified to run everyone's life in utter contemp. Government pillages far more today than it did ever before in the history of the country including WWII, and to what effect? Vast wealth transfer programs like NASA like the ethanol fuel garbage, like the $15billion for African AIDS. The list is endless. None of these things enhances the quality of life for anyone except those who draw big fat paychecks from or sell inflated goods and services to the government. Every penny taxed away to be spent foolishly by bureaucrats is a penny lost to what the taxpayer really wanted.
Pierre Proudhon said it quite well:
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished."
I wich I'd thought of it first, but obviously the problem has been around a long time.