Now the common answer is "but state services are loosy, and cost so much". That's wrong : they are loosy because you don't pay enough tax. You get what you pay for. The loosiest the service is, the more people whine at tax and the lower the tax are, and the loosier the service becomes because of budget shortage, and so on... up to the point where the US are : low tax (yes people : look in Europe before complaining), loosy state service, private company payed by citizen to do the governement job (private school, militia, etc...). Instead of tax, you receive bills - but in the end you end up paying for the sames services again. You still loose something : democracy. CEOs are NOT elected, they don't work for the customers, they work for the shareholders
The difference is with a private company, if their service is lousy I can switch to a different company. When you get government involved in things like schools where the budget has tripled in the past 20 years (so it's getting more money, not less) and the service is getting worse, what do you do? Pay your tax on a school you won't use and have to pay for a private school or should we have a choice to pay for one or the other? The purpose of government is to protect it's people from other governments. Therefore, we should support things like the military but not things like welfare, schooling, etc. If you reduce competition (like government does) you reduce quality (see Microsoft)
So how can their tests be valid if they don't have someone with any knowledge of the other system? You can't compare motorcycles and bicucles if you don't have someone who knows how they both work. If I put water in the gas tank of the motorcycle (since I didn't know what I was doing) the bicycle would easily outperform the motorcycle.
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Now the common answer is "but state services are loosy, and cost so much". That's wrong : they are loosy because you don't pay enough tax. You get what you pay for. The loosiest the service is, the more people whine at tax and the lower the tax are, and the loosier the service becomes because of budget shortage, and so on... up to the point where the US are : low tax (yes people : look in Europe before complaining), loosy state service, private company payed by citizen to do the governement job (private school, militia, etc...). Instead of tax, you receive bills - but in the end you end up paying for the sames services again. You still loose something : democracy. CEOs are NOT elected, they don't work for the customers, they work for the shareholders
The difference is with a private company, if their service is lousy I can switch to a different company. When you get government involved in things like schools where the budget has tripled in the past 20 years (so it's getting more money, not less) and the service is getting worse, what do you do? Pay your tax on a school you won't use and have to pay for a private school or should we have a choice to pay for one or the other? The purpose of government is to protect it's people from other governments. Therefore, we should support things like the military but not things like welfare, schooling, etc. If you reduce competition (like government does) you reduce quality (see Microsoft)
So how can their tests be valid if they don't have someone with any knowledge of the other system? You can't compare motorcycles and bicucles if you don't have someone who knows how they both work. If I put water in the gas tank of the motorcycle (since I didn't know what I was doing) the bicycle would easily outperform the motorcycle.