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To: bentway who wrote (15918)	4/24/2017 10:11:26 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Respond to of 365165

They could ALL be 'privatized'. We COULD all have a meter on our toilets! We could pay FedEx $10 to send a letter. Since they aren't, they're socialist. I understand your point, but there is a huge conceptual difference between the government operating what could be private sector as a public service paid for by taxes because usage is ubiquitous and the government taking money from some people in the form of taxes to provide something for the use of other people. In the former case, a public service, we also sometimes have usage fees when the service is for the indirect benefit to everybody but actually used by only a few or to different degrees. The lowest threshold distinction between public service and the notion of socialism is to take from each according to his ability and give to each according to his need. There's nothing socialist about the government running a justice system. Every form of government has one even if it's on the level of a monarch declaring "off with his head." I think you are differentiating, instead, between public and private services, not between the notions of public service and socialism.