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The problem that I have with the question as phrased -- who do you trust more -- (should be "whom," BTW - not to be pedantic) -- is that it's missing a piece of information: trust to do what? trust with what? There are certain things govt is good at, others that businesses are good at. Would I trust govt to keep a secret? Heck no, the govt leaks like a sieve and the workers who have political axes to grind would shit all over a citizen in a minute if it helped them or their union or their preferred candidate (Joe the Plumber, anyone?). A business? Only if it was in the business's interest to do it, in which case they'd be much better than the govt. Provide security? I'll go with the govt and the armed forces; Blackwater's experience shows that private security isn't always as reliable as we'd like.
The point being that we shouldn't delude ourselves that businesses can act like govts and still do their jobs well (watch what a business does when it has no or negligible competition), nor that the govt can run a business worth a lick. The comparison doesn't make much sense.
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