Blueskies writes:

Sure, I should have said govment provided service, rather than 'free', but that is the same as saying that you would
rather only ride on toll roads, rather than the freeways we have today. Some things are best as a govment service
because private providers will only do things that satisfy the profit motive.

Monopolies should always be under government control for this reason.

The different between a Flight Watch with fees and one without is that the
former is paid for exclusively by the people who use it, whereas the latter is
paid for by everyone, whether they use it or not. The former is bad for
pilots, the latter is bad for taxpayers generally.

It's often difficult to find a balance between the population that pays for a
service and the population that uses it. The biggest problems arise when the
two populations are mutually exclusive (cf. Welfare).

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