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You need government because capitalism fails...
to build houses for all
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The government doesn't build houses in the US thank god. Those that are government funded through various programs always turn out to be ghettos.
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To support a health service for all
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The UK "free for all" healthcare system is a failure. The new US system is as well already. Insurance premiums have skyrocketed since it's passing. In a true capitalistic market they would drop from competition.
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To defend the country
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One of the very few things the national government should do. Policing the World isn't included in that.
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To educate people
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educate or indoctrinate? The cost of college in the US is not affordable for the majority of people and puts them into a lifetime of debt because the government forces those colleges who receive government funding to increase their prices to meet requirements. Local schools are paid for by property taxes. The national government should have nothing to do with them. No child left behind is a great example of a national government intervention failure.
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To build roads and infrastructure
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Big misconception that the national government funds roads in the US. They are generally built using gas tax revenues locally via the state. Those that don't use this system in the US have shitty roads. Those that do have surplus revenues and this is all based on consumption>capitalism.
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To manage the economy in a rational way
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The problems with the economy aren't from capitalism failing it's from government intervention in the capitalistic market. Everything the government gets involved in increases prices. The prices have exceeded that which people can afford to fund an overbloated bureaucracy via taxation/subsidies and price manipulation.
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To provide work for all its people
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Correction to provide pay checks to those who don't work. And/or creating another government job which takes away 4 jobs from the private sector.
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To give all its people food and the means of life
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Government subsidies and monetary policy increases the price for everyone in the World.
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Therefore all capitalist societies have to be managed or capitalism would destroy itself...
In fact Reagan and Thatcher with their nutty neo liberal economics have almost done that.
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See all of the above..
Last but not least the European Union is a failure.