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    Default Costs of Privatization?

    Sort of the inverse of "Costs of Government".

    There are all sorts of problems and prices associated with privatizing things that benefit the public at large. Toll roads so expensive that only certain people (or corporations) can afford to use them. Education costs that exclude large swaths of a population. Medical care that's only afforded to/by upper income groups. The expensive R & D that wouldn't be done, etc.

    I've never really seen the Small Government, Low Tax, Free Market, Libertarian proponents discuss the "costs" of privatization, or what that kind of society would look like.

    *I've never seen the PRO-PRIVATE people make their case in affirmative ways. It's usually been framed as anti-public, anti-tax, anti-government. But being against something doesn't explain much.*
    Last edited by GGT; 06-13-2012 at 11:16 AM.

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