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Sort of like air and food. Government-funded provision of necessities for health via taxes and protection via regulation should not be damned by calling it names.

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>Sort of like air and food.

What are you trying to say? I'm not sure where you live but in most countries food is made and distributed privately, in stark contrast to how air is distributed.

And the government isn't typically involved in air distribution.

If they could privatize air, you can bet that they would have done it a long time ago. Its still public because they havent found a monetization mechanic yet.

do you notice how their grubby hands want to claim ownership of thongs they did not create?

The grubby hands of the state?

The grubby hands of kleptocrats dying to see how much of the commons they can exploit without cost.

Often one and the same.

It's not public, it's regulated commons.[1]

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/property/

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