Mr. Kimball:
“Imagine that the government got into the business of garbage removal. How would you feel about setting up shop with your own competing Acme Dispose-All Company? How would you fare against an entity that wrote all the rules and had at its disposal the resources of the public purse?”

Easy. The very first people I’d hire would be family members and political cronies of the bosses of the bureaucrats who oversaw and controlled the budget of the trash-collection agency.

The town car dealer would get a big order for trash trucks, the town newspaper would see paid ad-space “love”, the contracts in the part of town that regularly turned out at the polls would be very well-served by my company, while those areas with public service would see budget cuts, safety regulations and environmental impediments thrown in their path.
And I’d probably hire illegal aliens to do the actual work at sub-par wages,low enough to allow me to pass a modicum of the savings along to the customers while funding my graft patronage jobs and still pocketing a chunk.
When you come right down to it, what do you care who takes your garbage away, as long as it IS taken away?

I’d make a mint.