Η ΓΕΝΟΠ-ΔΕΗ δήλωσε: «η ταλαιπωρία των κατοίκων και των επισκεπτών της Σαντορίνης μετά την πυρκαγιά στο σταθμό παραγωγής της ΔΕΗ, αναδεικνύει με τον πλέον έντονο τρόπο τις μεγάλες ελλείψεις προσωπικού και την απουσία επενδύσεων εκσυγχρονισμού στο μη Διασυνδεδεμένο Σύστημα». Ο Murray Rothbard είχε γράψει στο "For a New Liberty": "Of course, the political bureaucrats have a standard response to the mounting complaints of poor and inefficient service: “The taxpayers must give us more money!” It is not enough that the “public sector,” and its corollary in taxation, has been growing far more rapidly in this century than the national income. It is not enough that the flaws and headaches of government operation have multiplied along with the increased burden of the government budget. We are supposed to pour still more money down the governmental rathole! The proper counter-argument to the political demand for more tax money is the question: “How is it that private enterprise doesn’t have these problems?” How is it that hi-fi manufacturers or photocopy companies or computer firms or whatever do not have trouble finding capital to expand their output? Why don’t they issue manifestos denouncing the investing public for not providing them with more money to serve consumer needs? The answer is that consumers pay for the hi-fi sets or the photocopy machines or the computers, and that investors, as a result, know that they can make money by investing in those businesses. On the private market, firms that successfully serve the public find it easy to obtain capital for expansion; inefficient, unsuccessful firms do not, and eventually have to go out of business. But there is no profit-and-loss mechanism in government to induce investment in efficient operations and to penalize and drive the inefficient or obsolete ones out of business. There are no profits or losses in government operations inducing either expansion or contraction of operations. In government, then, no one truly “invests,” and no one can insure that successful operations will expand and unsuccessful ones disappear. In contrast, government must raise its “capital” by literally conscripting it through the coercive mechanism of taxation."
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:55:50 +0000
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