Private Is Better: New at Reason

Anything government can do, the private sector can do better. It can even do things government can’t.

John Stossel writes:

Our next president will almost certainly be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

But I take heart knowing that America’s founders imposed checks and balances, so there will be limits on what bad things the next president can do.

Most of what government does is expensive and useless, no matter who is president. Or governor. Or mayor.

Politicians say there are so many things only government should do—explore outer space, provide airport security, supply utilities, etc. But even those things work better when the private sector does them.

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