‘Remember the long-gun registry ($2-billion) and the Phoenix pay system ($2.4-billion and counting)?’ $54-million for the ArriveCan app, plus other letters to the editor for Oct. 10
: A letter-writer asks who can spend money most effectively: ourselves or the government?
While “ourselves” and “government” shouldn’t be mutually exclusive, taking advantage of economies of scale is by far the most effective way to spend tax revenue. Equally important, taxes help the less fortunate with social and financial programs. As observed by U.S. justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.I might be persuaded to agree with a letter-writer that individuals exert greater care and attention and spend money more effectively than “somebody in government” – if he would undertake to use his own tax cut to finance our health system, public education, courts, police, military and roads. I could go on.
While many of these services can be improved – that “somebody in government” is human, after all – I would rather rely on a government employee, with more expertise than the average taxpayer, to make sure that my drinking water is safe and there is a hospital where I can get my broken hip fixed.
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