have you looked into republican policies?
They boil down to cutting taxes and most govt support for everything, including schools, the post service, infrastructure, etc. to me it feels like their goal is to privatize everything
That used to be true, but that was decades ago. There's a lot of lip service to that ideal, but ultimately Republican administrations have jacked up the national debt more than Democratic ones in the past few decades. This is my sliver of sympathy for the Tea Party wing of the GOP: they see the GOP saying one thing and just jacking up debt at least as bad as Democrats.
Privatizing everything sounds great in theory for a Milei type who has lived through heavy socialism. But then do it to education, like many are trying, and you see grifters with zero educational credentials essentially making a cash grab out of taxpayer funding with no improvement in outcomes, if not worse.
It's what they want to do in Texas. Which is a bit what happened to Chile in 2019 and sent everyone mad in the streets over a 4 penny increase in public transit fares. (Because it wasn't about transit fares.)
I hate the business analogy to government, because you cannot fire citizens and you cannot outsource your legislative branch to Mexico like corporates do. But a parallel of full privatization is a bit like how Netflix preferred to run an office a couple decades ago. They basically wanted to strip down everything so that all money would go into salary and employees practically had to buy their own desks if they wanted one. Zero shared perks.
While that seems maximally in favor of individualism, that pretty much depletes an entire office culture when there is next to zero shared experiences between employees besides the company Slack channels. Every one in it for themselves.
People talk about national identity and shared values. Well guess what? You privatize everything, and those things are now owned by Coca-Cola, Burger King, Home Depot, etc. You just sold your national culture out to the hands and wills of corporations, leaving your national identity as being just a shell of a consumer in shopping mall culture.
What's the cultural point of your mandatory national military service when you can just hire someone off of Taskrabbit or Fiver to take the bullet in the head for you?
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You just need to look at the debacle that is Thames water in the UK to see why public good should not be privatised. Are governments generally inefficient? Absolutely. Corporations who are only beholden to the shareholders with CEOs who have their pay linked on short term goals are a terrible alternative though.
