San Francisco has the biggest, most complex, and incredibly wasteful government in America for a city its size. Why?
Politics in America, and especially in San Francisco, has turned a corner. On the left, you have people who want to raise taxes and spend money on government-controlled social programs. On the right, you have people who want to raise taxes and spend money on "privatized" social programs (i.e., religious and secular nonprofits). Neither side's solution will work. We're all aware of government waste, but the recent solution to that problem -- "outsourcing" taxpayer funded programs to nonprofits -- just means less accountability for taxpayer dollars and rarely an improvement in service. Worse yet, we now have politicians on the left catering to the powerful nonprofits, just as politicians on the right cater to powerful companies.
Let's face it -- anything funded by the City is inherently inefficient. Even the bureaucrats will admit to it. So, why keep a system that doesn't work? If the City stuck to only protecting the life, liberty, and property of its citizens, and left everything else to private enterprise, could unemployment possibly be any worse? What about crime? Homelessness? The fact is that the City has done a miserable job trying to "fix" all of our problems. So why not fire the bureaucrats from their job of "fixing" our lives and instead do it ourselves? We couldn't possibly do any worse.
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