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by giraffe_lady 1223 days ago
> the cost is borne by the taxpayer rather than the user of the service

If the service is "not dying preventably" that's fine.

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There are far better ways of doing that. For example, government agriculture, because feeding people prevents them from dying, is still a bad idea, because every time the government took over agriculture, people died of starvation. Free markets produce a food surplus.
Where is there a free market for agriculture? The usa subsidizes farmers to control volume and prevent surplus overrun. Prices of food are thus artificially high.