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by anonymous on 2005-01-22 01:39:26government has a) no competition, b) no way of negative reinforcement (you can't stop paying your taxes if they do something you think is stupid) and c) WEAPONS. Love them or hate them, but Starbucks never killed anybody with an M-16. And anyone from Pennsylvania knows that if companies or private persons owned roads instead of them being government-owned, after a snowstorm hit you'd see the roads get plowed and salted pretty goddamned quick (whereas government has much, MUCH less of an incentive in doing this in a timely manner).
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title: 'government is static'
text: 'government has a) no competition, b) no way of negative reinforcement (you can't stop paying your taxes if they do something you think is stupid) and c) WEAPONS. Love them or hate them, but Starbucks never killed anybody with an M-16. And anyone from Pennsylvania knows that if companies or private persons owned roads instead of them being government-owned, after a snowstorm hit you'd see the roads get plowed and salted pretty goddamned quick (whereas government has much, MUCH less of an incentive in doing this in a timely manner).'
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date: 2005-01-22 01:39:26
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