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No soy anarquista.
Creo en un gobierno,
pero en un gobierno limitado.
Y el gobierno debería ser limitado,
en mi opinión,
a funciones muy sencillas.
Número uno, a defender al país contra enemigos extranjeros.
He intentado durante
mucho tiempo ver cómo convertir la defensa nacional en una empresa privada,
y nunca lo he logrado.
Es fácil ver cómo privatizar la educación,
pero no sé cómo privatizar la defensa nacional.
Estoy resignado al hecho de que vamos a tener que pagar
el doble de lo que deberíamos pagar para obtener una defensa nacional efectiva,
porque cualquier cosa que hace el gobierno,
en promedio,
hay algunas cosas que cuestan más,
otras menos,
en promedio,
cualquier cosa que hace el gobierno cuesta el doble que si
la hiciera la empresa privada.
Una función del gobierno es proteger al país contra enemigos extranjeros,
la defensa nacional.
Una segunda función
del gobierno,
y una que cumple muy,
muy mal, es proteger al ciudadano individual contra el abuso y la coerción de
otros ciudadanos. Evitar que te golpeen en la cabeza, que te asalten en la calle,
que entren a robar en tu casa, y así sucesivamente.
Y creo que el gobierno cumple esa función de manera muy
ineficaz porque está
intentando hacer tantas cosas que
no le competen.
Una tercera función del gobierno,
una función muy importante,
es definir las reglas del juego que jugamos.
¿ Qué es la propiedad privada?
Si un avión vuela a 10,000 pies sobre tu casa,¿ está violando tu propiedad privada?
Si vuela a 10 pies sobre tu
casa,¿ está
violando tu
propiedad privada?
No hay nada natural en
dónde debería
trazarse la línea.
Tenemos que tener algún mecanismo para establecer las reglas sobre eso,
y esa es una función apropiada del gobierno.
Y cuarto, es apropiado que el
gobierno proporcione
un mecanismo para adjudicar disputas sobre el significado de esas reglas,
un sistema judicial.
Esas son las cuatro funciones esenciales del gobierno en
mi opinión.
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Original transcript (English)
I'm not an anarchist. I believe in a government, but a limited government. I'm not an anarchist. I believe in a government, but a limited government. And the government should be limited, in my opinion, to very simple functions. Number one, to defending the country against foreign enemies. I have tried for a long time to see how to make national defense a private enterprise, and I have never succeeded.
I have tried for a long time to see how to make national defense a private enterprise, and I have never succeeded. It's easy to see how to privatize schooling, but I don't know how to privatize national defense. It's easy to see how to privatize schooling, but I don't know how to privatize national defense. I'm reconciled to the fact that we're going to have to pay twice as much as we should have to pay on the average, there are some things that are more, some less,
on the average, there are some things that are more, some less, on the average, anything government does costs twice as much as if it were being done by private enterprise. on the average, anything government does costs twice as much as if it were being done by private enterprise. on the average, anything government does costs twice as much as if it were being done by private enterprise. One function of government is to protect the country against foreign enemies, national defense.
A second function of government, and one which it performs very, very badly, A second function of government, and one which it performs very, very badly, is to protect the individual citizen against abuse and coercion by other citizens. To keep you from being hit over the head, mugged on the street, your house broken into, and so on. And I believe that the government performs that function very ineffectively
because it's trying, doing so many things it has no business doing. because it's trying, doing so many things it has no business doing. A third function of government, a very important function, is to define the rules of the game we play. A third function of government, a very important function, is to define the rules of the game we play. What's private property?
If an airplane flies 10,000 feet over your house, is he violating your private property? If he flies 10 feet over your house, is he violating your private property? There's nothing natural about where the line should be drawn. There's nothing natural about where the line should be drawn. We have to have some mechanism for making the rules about that, and that is an appropriate government function.
We have to have some mechanism for making the rules about that, and that is an appropriate government function. And fourth, it's appropriate for government to provide a mechanism for adjudicating disputes about the meaning of those rules, a judicial system. Those are the four essential functions of government in my opinion. Those are the four essential functions of government in my opinion.
