https://www.aier.org/article/no-shutdown-does-not-look-liberty
No, This Shutdown Does Not Look Like Liberty
“This shutdown is not showing us what freedom looks and feels like. It is not a libertarian experiment. It is showing us just how much government is doing that it need not do. It is inadvertently mapping out a solid blueprint for what needs to gravitate from the public sector over to private hands, so that the services thus rendered will be more reliable, competitive, and truly reflective of the public interest.”
“The lesson of the shutdown: if you want a service to be unreliable, disregarding of consumer interest, overly costly, buffeted by political winds, and subject to extended outages, by all means, hand it over to be administered by government.
This shutdown is revealing not how much we need government but how much the government is doing that it should not be doing at all. The best way to deal with it is not through a promiscuous budget deal that throws around tens of billions left and right until every last politician in Washington is happy. The way forward is for the things that are shut down but still necessary for normal life to be put into private hands.”
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This shutdown is revealing not how much we need government but how much the government is doing that it should not be doing at all. The best way to deal with it is not through a promiscuous budget deal that throws around tens of billions left and right until every last politician in Washington is happy. The way forward is for the things that are shut down but still necessary for normal life to be put into private hands.”
