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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Tax Freedom Day
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:48:53 EDT
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> ...  But more seriously,
> I don't see what's wrong with the government's owning businesses, as long
> as they're not actually run by civil servants, which crown corporations
> aren't.  ...

Unfortunately, the owner of a business generally has some say in how it
is run.  So crown corporations ultimately *are* run by either civil servants
or politicians, although day-to-day decision-making may well be in the
hands of supposed businessmen.  (Just how businesslike is it to know that
the government isn't going to let you fail, no matter how inefficient you
are?  Or that your stock price is irrelevant, since the government isn't
going to sell anyway?)

I agree that it's better to see the money going to Ottawa than to Delaware,
but it would be still better to see it going to Canadian private investors.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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