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It appears we have little more to discuss on the subject.

I will add that I agree completely that the people who want government out of healthcare but in the roads, schools, courts, police, etc. have no intellectual leg to stand on. Once you concede that you think a coercive monopoly can provide any good or service better than a competitive free market, trying to confine the socialist djini to certain sectors of the economy but not others is intellectually bankrupt.

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If by "any" you mean "every" I think very few people actually hold such a view. If by "any" you mean "a single" then I don't see how intellectual bankruptcy follows.

It seems reasonable to suspect that government might be able to administer some particular industry better than private business due to differences of structure and incentive. If such an industry exists it hardly seems intellectually bankrupt to advocate governmental administration of said industry while opposing governmental administration of industries for which private enterprise are better suited.

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I think if you replace Boro's "can provide" with "is morally justified in using force to provide" (and eliminate any comparison to a free market, which I believe is a tangent), then I think it all clears up.