04-06-2024, 04:15 PM
(04-06-2024, 04:03 PM)essentialmix75 Wrote:(04-06-2024, 06:50 AM)Bluestow Wrote:(03-06-2024, 09:00 PM)essentialmix75 Wrote:(03-06-2024, 08:46 PM)66zoolane Wrote:(03-06-2024, 08:22 PM)essentialmix75 Wrote: You!..... Government only pays for those things with currency extorted from you.
But you also pay for lots of other stuff that you would never pay for....
No idea why I'm posting, because you've never once listened to a counter opinion, but it seems so obvious how your ideas pan out.
Do you, while knowing how self-focused a huge proportion of society are, truly believe that most people will voluntarily choose to spend their own money, or whatever barter system you have in mind, on fixing roads, funding schools and paying for hospitals and the police etc... with nobody telling them they have to do that?
And then, you also believe that those paying for all those things voluntarily, won't become angry with those that refuse to contribute (though, it's their free choice, of course).
And you then carry on to believe that scenario won't lead to social breakdown, intimidation and eventually mob rule?
If you believe all that, good luck, but you're intentionally disregarding thousands of years of human history contrary to your beliefs.
First of all, at the moment about half of everything you earn goes to the Government in Direct tax via earnings.... Or via other forms of tax like Vat, fuel, Council, Road and so on!.
In a true free market Non jobs within the NHS like Diversity jobs, Net zero and middle management would disappear.
The minimal currency you would need to fund the things you need would dramatically decline.
And the level of service you would receive would improve or the businesses would disappear, like they do in any other field.
But then again all of the services you listed are doing so amazing under government control!.....
You didn’t answer the question. Also, the NHS is far more efficient that the free market healthcare system in the US so you’re talking nonsense.
The US healthcare system is anything but free market!....
The US government spent, "$1.5 trillion on health care in fiscal year 2022" That over $4000 per person....
Big Pharma and their shareholders, all fund the politicians. So they keep the corrupt system just how it is!.
Anyone who has dealt with government contracts, knows that the amount they can charge wouldn't be anywhere near the same level. If they tried charging a member of the public.
I worked up the QA when it was being built in the late 2007/09..... And Carillion were charging £60 to change a light bulb!.
A mate who ran an Executive Chauffeur business at the time Carillion were building QA used to take a couple of Office Wallahs to Scum Airport every Friday & pick them up again on a Monday besides transporting them from their digs in Portchester to QA & back everyday.
It was very lucrative for him as well as the Office Wallahs - not surprising Carillion went bust.