It's not a matter of money

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Author: Patrick Crozier

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The claim is often made that X state industry would be really good if only they spent some more money on it. To which my response is usually "How would you know?" How would you falsify that theory? Difficult because I have never heard anyone put a figure on how much would be needed to sort out the problems of state education, state healthcare, state housing etc.

A sort of counter is the observation that state industries never get enough money. Nationalisation in the UK really got going in the 1940s. Now, I haven't been around for all that time but I've never known a time when people weren't complaining about there not being enough money. I suppose if you've run a system for 50 years and at no point in that time has there been "enough" money then you'd have to say the chances of there ever being enough money must be rather slim.

Bizarrely enough, it would appear that after 50 years of "underfunding" we are about to get a period of "overfunding". The UK government is piling money in the NHS. So far, with seemingly negligible results.

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