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Old October 9th 05, 12:43 AM
Sylvain
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Matt Whiting wrote:
Yes, has anyone an example of a government run business or anything else

for that matter that ever turned a profit?


I could try to dig up some numbers, but I believe there
are (or at least were) a couple of examples of post offices
(gvt run administrations in a few countries) that actually are
doing reasonably well.

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Old October 9th 05, 01:11 AM
Matt Whiting
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Sylvain wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

Yes, has anyone an example of a government run business or anything else


for that matter that ever turned a profit?



I could try to dig up some numbers, but I believe there
are (or at least were) a couple of examples of post offices
(gvt run administrations in a few countries) that actually are
doing reasonably well.


I believe the context here was the USA so that limits it to the American
government. Although, international examples would be interesting to
see if they really made money, or made money because they had a
monopoly. Most postal services don't have any across the board
competition (at least in the USA, last I knew, only the Federal Postal
Service could carry letters).

Matt
 




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