[boston_clone]

Do you think all public services ought to be profitable? Or can we entertain the thought that our taxes help offset costs of (or directly fund) critical public services?

As an aside, I genuinely dislike seeing misinformation from the Trump/Russia era on HN.

[ROARosen]

How about not having ad hominem attacks on HN? Your dislike to seeing certain information on HN doesn't add any value to the conversation. Especially when it presumes - without evidence - that the parent comment surely has some partisan mental bias just like you yourself have.

And to your actual answer. I do believe public funds can go to fund government enterprises. Just not when any comparative private enterprise seems to figure out how to be profitable.