I have to wait for EVERYONE, or at least a majority to get myself away from the forced payment of inefficient State entities. Even then, we might just exchange one lot for another.

No, the public sector waste is very hard to get away from, whereas private waste is easy and almost instant (unless the State is in there forcing it on us, q.v. Capita).

This is why the State must be far far smaller and all non-natural monopoles (and health and education are NOT natural) be outside the State hands.

http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/the-case-for-taxing-e-mail/

Well it has to be spent on things like providing healthcare, welfare provision, education, or regulation.

There’s a lot of waste t’b'sure, but then there’s a lot of waste in joint-stock corporations as well.

An elected, democratic, and representative government will fail if it allows state inefficiency to grow too large, just as surely as the CEOs of inefficient corporations will be voted out by their shareholders if they fail to show improvement (which is by way of saying that the amount of inefficiency and waste people put up with is staggering, and not just in the public sector, GM’s corporate jets anyone?)

4 – for now but not for very much longer if we keep having authoritarians voted in.

3 – Labour will split before it goes. Then we will have 2 heads of the hydra. One will be toothless and spend its time trying to queer the LibDem’s pitch by being Social Democratic (i.e. Lib Dem in all but the wrong name). The other one will be a bunfight for various flavours of that bankrupt ideology called Socialism.

2 – It is a choice that sounds like a classic scene from Laurel and Hardy.

Ollie: “Fascist, Fascist, Fascist…and what will YOU vote, Stanley?”
Stan: “Fascist”
Ollie: “Errr (harrumph!) pardon us, just a moment…”
Finlayson: “Doh!”

1 – Two words: “Hail Spode”

Mass transport has always been government backed. Railways needed an act of parliament to be built, I’m pretty sure the land for them was often acquired through force (historically or at the time of building).
Roads for the modern mass transport system were again built by the state.

Tesco’s business model probably wouldn’t be viable in a free(d) market, it is too dependent upon subsidy of history and transport subsidy.

Then again, its possible that given a free(d) market we’d have long distance mass transit in a different way – the innovation which has been stifled by the state could have been amazing, at this point its a guessing game.

Indeed. It is a good thing weed isn’t state sanctioned, or else it would be much harder to get hold of than it is now (given a somewhat higher price due to additional risks of production and transportation). Anyway, I am sure Tesco would build the roads itself if the government couldn’t be bothered. Whole towns could be built where railway tracks were laid, back when public transport was in the private sector.

P.S. isn’t it funny that we always had the technology to do emails – they could have been done on the old telephone system. It was the development of decent text editor software and graphical display that got them going.

#4. Really? I suppose it is free to a degree, but I’d hesitate to call it free. Publish something and you run the risk of being sued for libel in the UK no matter where you are. That’s not free.
Many ISPs are willing to submit to state interference in their operations too, cooperating with even foreign powers to seize servers.
There’s also other filtering such as that by the IWF and low level surveillance on the way.

#3. For the moment.

#2. Its a choice between fascist and fascist. At least if you go by the economic definition (broadly) of privatising profits and socialising risk. We don’t have the fascist iconography, the nationalism may be latent but is not explicit so we’re not at what most people think of as fascist (and nowhere near Nazism)

#1. All of them are.

My, I’m pessimistic tonight aren’t I?

* Not sure if it does or not…