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Originally Posted by einbert
The internet (and many protocols and services that function within/because of the internet), national parks service, national highway system, public education, great amounts of medical research, public universities, universal health care in many countries. The list goes on and on, those are just the biggest highlights I could think of off the top of my head.
Highways, for example, are built by construction companies rather than actual government employees. The government merely budgets highways. Companies respond to the commands. The government is making these roads a mess. We'd have packages delivered to us via drone by now if it weren't for government. Instead it's UPS, which isn't as good for the environment.
Education is loltastic in this country, and without parks, people would find substitutes, like museums. Parks hold-down the potential of the population. People can't build homes and cities where there are national parks.
There are other threads for health care, so I won't dwell on it here.