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MR4D on April 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Of...

So why not have the government run everything then?

Government for the sake of government is never good.

the_gastropod on April 10, 2019 [–]

Who are you arguing against? I never suggested anything of the sort.

Some things lend themselves very well to for-profit businesses. Others do not. Firefighting and filing your taxes to the government strike me as two things the government can probably handle better than capitalists.

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