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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (13753)3/2/2010 1:54:43 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Funny I was arguing just that point here the other day... on how outsourcing has grown and government as a result has gotten smaller.

Its smaller in terms of government employee counts, not so much by other methods.

The point is not that such contracting is not a government run activity, it is one. Its that implementation by the private sector is often seen as more efficient even for government run activities.

The contractors make roads to the same extent that the Chinese contractor makes Apple iPhones.

The Chinese contractors do make the iPhones. Other people design and market them.

Ever wonder why it is that every successful country in history has had a strong central government?

Switzerland? The Cantons make up a lot of the rules. In the US the states even now have an important role, and they used to have a predominant one, even as the US was becoming a very successful country.

As for "low tax", that's an entirely different issue than strong central government. You can have strong central governments and low taxes, weak central governments and high taxes (if perhaps largely collected by states/provinces), etc.

More successful countries tend to have larger governments because more successful countries can afford larger governments (in terms of employment, or spending). The burden of such a large government would kill countries with a weaker private sector, it only slows down countries with a powerful and dynamic private sector like the US.
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