Jim Choate wrote:
What happens when you have somebody on a fixed or small income. Is your position that the paultry sum they can raise will be taken seriously in regards compensating either the insurance company or the fire dept.?
What if they are on a fixed or small income and need food? Medical care? Etc. Should be make food retail and medical services both tax-supported government-mandated monopolies to accommodate those people who do not produce enough that they need a free lunch provided by someone more productive? It is the same argument used to continue our massive failure of a public educational system. There is no valid reason to intertwine "welfare" with the service, and there are many reasons not to -- e.g. it treats items as commodity services that should not be (esp. education), it creates false "rights" (e.g. right to education), it creates a coercive monopoly immune to market competition, and since people don't have to *evaluate* the service for spending decisions, they tend to *value* it less if at all. With welfare completely divorced from services, you can get a clear sight of the real cost (negative value) of the socialistic support system, and also of the productive output (positive value) of the service produced and those willing and able to consume it.
willing to pay the local fire department a fee to stand ready to come and put out fires for me.
You do it already, it's called taxes.
No, he said *willing*.
No, without taxes funding a civic police department with
If you claim that a service won't exist without public tax funding, then you are essentially claiming that people do not value that service enough to privately pay for it. So we should instead force them to pay for it?
connections to other police agencies around the country you're hope of finding the perp is nil.
And these connections won't exist if they are private entities? Perhaps they will have less chance if the agencies are bound to the same limitations as individuals in regards to privacy and liberty, but that is a good thing.
Oh, yeah. You and a couple of your beer buddies have like a real hope in hell of matching the capabilities of a real police homicide or rape investigation. Get fucking real.
But that is not to say a private organization would not have matching capabilities. You cannot look at current PI's for the same reason as you cannot look at private education as what would exist in absence of the publicly mandated one. Lack of suitable competition is due to government-created monopolistic conditions. Matt