Re: Government competition

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Stan Johnson wrote:

>I must enter a *strong* objection to such draconian suggestions! To
>turn essential social services, such as the mails, the prisons, the
>police, and others, (I would add medical care) over to entities whose
>basic objective is to maximize their profit and minimize their costs,
>without primacy given to regard for the adequacy or completeness of
>their services, is and would be disastrous, in terms of services to the
>public.

Should we go back to a single long distance company?

Businesses cannot maximize their profit if they have no concern for the
adequacy or completeness of their services.  Unless they're monopolies,
like AT&T was or like the Post Office is.



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