Hotspur wrote:
The point is that you are splitting hairs.
In all of the cases I mentioned, where I live, the services are performed by the city. Yes, the city takes the money in the form of taxes, but we need those services anyway, so we would have to purchase them no matter what. It has been shown in numerous examples, that when the city asks for private bids, the work could be performed by contractors for significantly less money. And that doesn't factor in things like a reduced need for building space, administrative employees, and legacy costs like pensions and healthcare for retirees.
So if you want to substitute the word efficient for productive, then meh. But that wan't my point.
Biz's remark that the gov't doesn't create jobs, it takes one from the private sector at 150% of the cost is about right, but not quite, because the gov't workers actually accomplish (produce) significantly less per day than a civilian worker would.
I'll BBL to Internet fight u.
