pretty much the calculation argument, which way too many people haven't really faced head-on
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it's why "paying someone to paint your fence" doesn't generalize to "government jobs program"
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Extending the analogy. There are lots of roads and schools and, well, fences that could be repaired.
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sure but the information problem hasn't gone away. ask how you assess that the work done is worth what you paid for it
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in yr individual homeowner example all the info you need is local & accessible to you, so it's 100% your call
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but straight analogy from that to an abstract aggregate like "society" or "the taxpayers" is apples to oranges
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Yebbut I'm talking about government. I'm talking about a bureaucracy with legitimacy and an army.
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the basic principal-agent problems still apply except now the agent-bureaucracy has as army at its disposal
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that's ... um ... not necessarily to the principals' advantage.
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Libertarianism is like a patent tonic for really old, deep, structural, problems of collective action.
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Less a patent tonic than not feeding the patient poison to begin with.
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