Private industry is not always the superior solution:

There are people that believe “government’s the problem rather than solution. I heard Milton Friedman state that half of what our federal government’s spending is wasted. A great proportion of all other than federal spending, (including commercial and personal spending) is also “wasted”.

We, as individuals generally believe that governments’ spending for what we approve of, to the extent that’s spent in manners that we approve of, is justifiable; all other governments’ spending is less than justifiable. That’s politics. There are extremely few items of governments expense that are not controversial. Governments’ lines of expenses are criticized or subject to objections by some aggregate individuals or groups. Political disagreement occurs more so in democracies but also occurs within nations of only one political party or of extremely few leaders.

Outsourcing some specific government functions would be contrary to the public’s interest. There are some government functions that can be outsourced, but government rather than private industry provides them in a superior manner. Many other nations provide their population Wi-Fi, medical insurance, railroads and other public transportation at lesser expense and in a manner superior to that of the United States. It’s nonsense to contend that private industry does or will perform every function in a manner superior to government.

Respectfully, Supposn
Gubmint doesn't "produce" anything that it first didn't expropriate from or outright destroy elsewhere.

Because I understand that you come by your economic ignorance honesty, as opposed to being a brain dead, knuckle dragging Marxist ideologue, I invite you to watch the following and learn lesson #2 (after the law of supply and demand) of econ 101....

 
Private industry is not always the superior solution:

There are people that believe “government’s the problem rather than solution. I heard Milton Friedman state that half of what our federal government’s spending is wasted. A great proportion of all other than federal spending, (including commercial and personal spending) is also “wasted”.

We, as individuals generally believe that governments’ spending for what we approve of, to the extent that’s spent in manners that we approve of, is justifiable; all other governments’ spending is less than justifiable. That’s politics. There are extremely few items of governments expense that are not controversial. Governments’ lines of expenses are criticized or subject to objections by some aggregate individuals or groups. Political disagreement occurs more so in democracies but also occurs within nations of only one political party or of extremely few leaders.

Outsourcing some specific government functions would be contrary to the public’s interest. There are some government functions that can be outsourced, but government rather than private industry provides them in a superior manner. Many other nations provide their population Wi-Fi, medical insurance, railroads and other public transportation at lesser expense and in a manner superior to that of the United States. It’s nonsense to contend that private industry does or will perform every function in a manner superior to government.

Respectfully, Supposn
You make great sense but some of these guys are indoctrinated into some fantasy of government that really has never existed here. Private businesses do not set the rules of business nor do they determine what business is legal or illegal. Yet these guys seriously believe private business operates independent of government and that's just not so.
Black markets act nearly entirely independent of gubmint, meathead....The "nearly" part has to do with them avoiding The Man, not relying on the beneficience of his regulatory morass.
 
Toddsterpatriot, do you deny:
(1) California’s more stringent vehicle emission standards' purposes are to better protect the financial and/or health well-being of California’s population?
(2) Due to California’s more stringent vehicle emission standards, to some extent there’s less air pollution within California’s cities?
(3) Less air pollution is a of some health benefit, (and a health benefit is also of some financial benefit) to a state’s population?


Due to, or regardless of California’s emission standard’s cost-benefits, their government had the legal authority to pass and enact their more stringent vehicle emission standards. Unless and until those standards are repealed, or modified, or deemed federal or state unconstitutional, those standards are law in California.

Whatever your question or your point is with regard to “California syndrome”, yours or my opinions or answers are inconsequential to California syndrome's consequences. ...
(1) California’s more stringent vehicle emission standards' purposes are to better protect the financial and/or health well-being of California’s population?
If you have evidence that these more expensive cars are better for the financial well being of Californians, you shouldn't wait for me, you should just post it.
If you think the lighter cars that higher MPG standards require result in a net health benefit, show me your proof.

(2) Due to California’s more stringent vehicle emission standards, to some extent there’s less air pollution within California’s cities?
To some extent. And?

(3) Less air pollution is a of some health benefit, (and a health benefit is also of some financial benefit) to a state’s population?
This leads back to your ignorance of cost-benefit analysis
Toddsterpatriot, maybe you’re not pretending, and you are stupid. I’m a very patient man, but you’ve exceeded my patience. Supposn

Hey, if something is more expensive, because of California regulations, it must be better...…..
because Supposn said so...…...Durr
 
Governments’ produce some goods, but the greatest proportion of governments’ products are service products.

USA is now less prepared and able because we’ve annually underfunded our U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Among the government produced good and services we depend upon our governments’ armed forces, judicial systems, streets and highways, fire departments, tax collectors, departments of sanitation, U.S. Social Security Administration, Bureaus’ of weights and measures, sanitation departments, tunnels, bridges, dams, reservoirs, armories, weather stations, and light houses.

Respectfully, Supposn
 
Private industry is not always the superior solution:

There are people that believe “government’s the problem rather than solution. I heard Milton Friedman state that half of what our federal government’s spending is wasted. A great proportion of all other than federal spending, (including commercial and personal spending) is also “wasted”.

We, as individuals generally believe that governments’ spending for what we approve of, to the extent that’s spent in manners that we approve of, is justifiable; all other governments’ spending is less than justifiable. That’s politics. There are extremely few items of governments expense that are not controversial. Governments’ lines of expenses are criticized or subject to objections by some aggregate individuals or groups. Political disagreement occurs more so in democracies but also occurs within nations of only one political party or of extremely few leaders.

Outsourcing some specific government functions would be contrary to the public’s interest. There are some government functions that can be outsourced, but government rather than private industry provides them in a superior manner. Many other nations provide their population Wi-Fi, medical insurance, railroads and other public transportation at lesser expense and in a manner superior to that of the United States. It’s nonsense to contend that private industry does or will perform every function in a manner superior to government.

Respectfully, Supposn
Neither is government
 
Private industry is not always the superior solution: ...
Neither is government.
Blues Man, so many within our political spectrum believe rather than government bureaus, private industry is almost always, (if not always) the superior solution for accomplishing every task and solving every problem in government. Addressing those right wingers, I posted this thread.
Respectfully, Supposn
Private industry is not always the superior solution: … Outsourcing some specific government functions would be contrary to the public’s interest. There are some government functions that can be outsourced, but government rather than private industry provides them in a superior manner. Many other nations provide their population Wi-Fi, medical insurance, railroads and other public transportation at lesser expense and in a manner superior to that of the United States. It’s nonsense to contend that private industry does or will perform every function in a manner superior to government.
 
… So economic icons like Friedman, Smith, Keynes , along with their modern toadies Greenspan , Bernanke , etc ad naseum are bantered about

The fact is that we went in from the congressional gala of 'too big to fail' in '08 ,09 with these fools on the front page of news everywhere, to the 5th pages news QE4, and the recent $4T QE5 barely mentioned via media is testimony to mass denial and defeat …
Sparky, the article’s author, Peter Grier, is referring to the great number of governments’ public services that directly and/or indirectly protect, and/or improve are economic and social well-being.

The concepts of limiting government officials, or the politically well connected, or the wealthy or otherwise powerful and/or influential is necessary in order to sustain a government’s democratic character. Those limiting concepts “check” but are not meant to prevent USA’s federal or states or their local governments from fore filling their constitutional purposes.
Respectfully, Supposn

Excerpted from:
”... The ideas for the big government programs that became the New Deal had been bouncing around U.S. politics for years before Franklin Roosevelt became president, says Margaret O’Mara, a professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle. It took the shock of the 1929 stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression to make them law. …
Editor’s note: As a public service, all our coronavirus coverage is free. No paywall. …”.
Author: Peter Grier - CSMonitor.com .
 
It took the shock of the 1929 stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression to make them law. ……

Exactly, to panic people and cause them to make socialist laws that extended the Great Depression for 16 years and caused a world war that killed 60 million!! Yes, modern Liberals are actually slow enough to imagine that was a good thing! Do you wonder why it took the human race 10,000 years to invent freedom and democracy? Because the vast majority of humans have always been slow enough to be liberals. Sad!
 
Gubmint doesn't "produce" anything that it first didn't expropriate from or outright destroy elsewhere.

Because I understand that you come by your economic ignorance honesty, as opposed to being a brain dead, knuckle dragging Marxist ideologue, I invite you to watch the following and learn lesson #2 (after the law of supply and demand) of econ 101....

Oddball, U.S. armed forces are not provide a government service? Federal Aviation Administration’s ground controllers do not enable safer air traffic? I suppose there are some fools that believe government does not produce any services of value.

You provided a link to a video that apparently implies government spending for creation and maintenance of streets road and highways are robbing taxpayers.

Our nation’s voters in their collective wisdom (or as you may consider it to be their collective ignorance), have elected their government’s administrators and legislators. The collective decisions of those legislators was that public interests would be better served, if some portion of public wealth were spent to build, update and maintain our public streets, roads and highways.

I believe that’s the manner by which our political system should operate. You believe otherwise? Respectfully, Supposn
 

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