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While taxation can be used to externalize costs, it is not the same thing.


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Do the people in government pay their own salaries? This is what Boro meant, I think. At the very least the costs of the beauracracies are externalized to the tax payers, regardless of what policies the government inacts.

AFAIK none of the G8 countries have governments that dont engage in some sort of externalization of costs to the benefit of special interest groups at the expense of taxpayers.

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Are you claiming that it's impossible for the government to provide beneficial services?

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Are you claiming it's impossible for Hitler to provide benefitial services?

See how rediculous the question is?