Competition so regularly brings us better stuff -- cars, phones, shoes, medicine -- that we've come to expect it. We complain on the rare occasion the supermarket doesn't carry a particular ice-cream flavor. We just assume the store will have 30,000 items, that it will be open 24/7, and that the food will be fresh and cheap.
I take it for granted that I can go to a foreign country, hand a piece of plastic to a total stranger who doesn't speak English ... and he'll rent me a car for a week. Later, Visa or MasterCard will have the accounting correct to the penny.
Compare: Governments can't even count votes accurately -- or deliver the mail efficiently.
Yet now, somehow, government will run auto companies and guarantee us health care better than private firms?
And the public seems eager for that!...
For the rest of the op-ed piece, visit Townhall.com.
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