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Is it your assumption that social problems are necessarily remediable by government programs?
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What has a greater chance of success, a market that doesn't even try, or a government who tries?
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Are you sure that many government programs don't exacerbate social problems?
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And if I can name one that doesn't? The public library system, for example?
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Are you sure that market forces won't solve many of the problems you perceive without creating sclerotic, inflexible, antidemocratic bureaucracies?
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If we vote for Democrats, then their programs are democratic. Of course the US isn't a democracy, so I fail to see the relevance.
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Have you considered that many programs place self-perpetuation as a goal ahead of any useful societal purpose?
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According to whom?
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Are you convincingly able to discount the law of unintended consequences, which arises because planning will never be able to anticipate and account for the effects of its implementation?
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A variant on Murphy's Law? Comon, you can do better than that.
What harmful effects could come from providing libraries to the public?