Manaknight
Supreme [H]ardness
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Basic Mail and Highways, healthcare? LOL
Advances in the healthcare industry cost a fortune, and pays out similarly. Sure, you can do it, if you either want to A) pay MASSIVE taxes to cover the cost of the service, or B) Stop healthcare advances dead in their tracks. Who's going to do the research if the government isn't willing to pay out the massive amounts of money it requires? No one.
Healthcare is one of the worst industries to nationalize. Highways are generally one of the best simply because all you really have to do is decide where they go and auction off the contract to build it.
to be fair, healthcare DOES need something done with it. But nationalization isn't the answer.
not touching most of the other stuff going back and forth, there are some good points here and there on both sides... though personally i'll usually take anarcho-capitalism ala Rothbard