Like music? I like music. Jazz, especially. I spend some of my income on jazz CDs, have a lot of Miles, some Getz... The government could, if it wanted to, take $10 from each of us and provide each of us with the same CD that I might pay $15 for now, generating efficiency through scale.
And if I were in charge of rating countries' standards of living, I'd include access to jazz as a measure of standard of living and that might score the US some points.
Except that NOT EVERYONE LIKES JAZZ. Thus, if you don't like jazz, you're NOT better off, your standard of living is not better, it's worse because you're out the $10.
Not everyone likes parks as much as the next person, not everyone gets sick often enough for socialized medicine to make sense for them, etc......
There is no "government funding" - it's the government forcing the citizens to buy something that not all the citizens would buy on their own. It's more efficient but only if you were going to buy it.
2007-07-10
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