Contra Garnett by MSW. MGB: One can certainly rethink unions in both the public and private sector - especially in light of Catholic Social Teaching which actually favors ownership by those employed. Unions are ideally moving in the future from collective bargaining from their narrow interest to representative factions among employee owners. In such a world, privatization of public services is actually a good thing, provided the workers are owners rather than the slaves of capitalists who channel the money once spent on retirement benefits to the profits paid mostly to management.
As far as seeking a libertarian socialist solution to government action - I am all for it. The problem is, most libertarians don't see the need to come up with the alternative and implement it before trying to take down the government service. As long as they continue with this omission, the voters will not trust them and government remains. To take away an expected benefit without replacing it with something better is an act of violence against the beneficiary. Unless that beneficiary is a rentier, this is never justified.
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