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Private actors, by definition, must extract something from any service to pay themselves.
The government has no overhead. It can run with absolutely no profit and that is its intended model.
A private health care company that returns zero profit to its shareholders? Shut 'er down.
A private transit company that returns zero profit to its shareholders? Shut 'er down.
And yet, government services can run indefinitely at break-even because they're not beholden to the market.
Only government can be so efficient--the private sector always loses efficiency through someone scraping something off the top.
Realz.
Private actors, by definition, must extract something from any service to pay themselves.
The government has no overhead. It can run with absolutely no profit and that is its intended model.
A private health care company that returns zero profit to its shareholders? Shut 'er down.
A private transit company that returns zero profit to its shareholders? Shut 'er down.
And yet, government services can run indefinitely at break-even because they're not beholden to the market.
Only government can be so efficient--the private sector always loses efficiency through someone scraping something off the top.