Bacon, Guns & Whiskey

Atlanta is trying a socialist fix for a capitalist problem. The free market can solve problems — and has solved the biggest ones — better than any other force out there, short of (perhaps) creating the space program. But even there, the private sector has stepped in and now you have reusable spacecraft and extraordinary advances in technology in a very short amount of time.

So Atlanta has paid in millions of dollars for a taxpayer-funded business because they (the city) failed to incentivize the private sector sufficiently enough and, in so doing, have set a precedent that if you let a problem fester enough then you’ll get a free business from the government. That’s a dangerous perception to create.

Now, before someone throws a melodrama grenade, I’m not saying that underprivileged neighborhoods going without access to fresh food is okay — quite the opposite — what I am saying is that there is a way to incentivize the private sector to solve problems in a better way.