Firefighting and to some extend fire prevention is exactly a public good. So I don't see your point.
As to real life examples of governments and its agencies being incompetent in provision of non-public goods one needs to go no further that to look on the ongoin decay in the quality of education provided by governmental schools anywhere.
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Date: 2014-07-08 12:53 pm (UTC)As to real life examples of governments and its agencies being incompetent in provision of non-public goods one needs to go no further that to look on the ongoin decay in the quality of education provided by governmental schools anywhere.