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Originally Posted by Azure
Except despite the fact - which I agree with - that private businesses tend to become more inefficient as they get larger, they can't operate with yearly losses and sustain it over the long-term. The whole health of the business depends on being able to turn some kind of profit or keep recording growth..
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How is that relevant to how a government works? It is not a money-making proposition, so that's a false equivalency. You might as well compare how a government works with how a chess club operates and conclude that since membership dues are paid yearly on January 1st, so taxes should be too.
edit - and to elaborate and make clearer, there are valid arguments to make as to how government should be more efficient, but that businesses need to make money or die is not one of them. It is completely irrelevant, and that the idea of "profitability" ever enters the conversation is a major failing of popular political discourse.
Government is not a business and has far more differences than similarities to one. Ideologues like crazy_eoj who cannot understand this, and thus make ridiculously vague suggestions as to what to do to "fix" government issues by applying business solutions, are a major cause of how these issues get fubared in the first place. Sorry Azure, I know that wasn't your intent, but as soon as someone goes even partway down that path it really gets on my man-tits.