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Profits play a massive factor in why governments tend to be incompetent.

What do you think taxes are? They're a wealth transfer without option from everyone else to those in the employ of government.

A whole bunch of people are profit from government expenditure, we even have a word for a special type of fraud about government expenditure: pork barelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel

But, government run operations tend he notorious for incompetence for a few reasons, others have done a better job of detailing:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=why+governments+are+notorious+...



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