Yep, another issue with the argument of the old lady is that it isn’t necessarily possible to sustain a productive business of a certain type. Often times that isn’t a big deal, but it can be a huge problem if it (for instance) isn’t sustainable to run a grocery store in an area.
When it’s a case of a necessary service, often it’ll be already disadvantaged people who are most affected. In my example case for instance, it’ll be in sparsely populated rural areas, or ones with high crime rates, where the government fails to appropriately change legislation in order to coubteract these issues.
Yep, another issue with the argument of the old lady is that it isn’t necessarily possible to sustain a productive business of a certain type. Often times that isn’t a big deal, but it can be a huge problem if it (for instance) isn’t sustainable to run a grocery store in an area.
When it’s a case of a necessary service, often it’ll be already disadvantaged people who are most affected. In my example case for instance, it’ll be in sparsely populated rural areas, or ones with high crime rates, where the government fails to appropriately change legislation in order to coubteract these issues.
Supplying people with basic life necessities should not need to garner a profit.
This goes for food, water, shelter, but also electricity, healthcare, public transportation, and internet.
(Coincidentally, most of these are basic human rights.)
Society as a whole experiences net benefit (even am economic one) from those, so society as a whole should fund them.
Yes, this requires taxes.