Because the Republican/Libertarian dogma is that government does not work and is inherently wasteful, that only private corporations are efficient and good. Their goal is to destroy the entire government and replace it all with private contractors doing the same thing for more money and half as well. Ignoring the fact that they are themselves government workers, and that there are many necessary services that explicitly should not be run to maximize profits, they’re also fundamentally wrong that the government is somehow uniquely wasteful and inefficient. It’s just one of many false beliefs they have, the biggest and most damaging of which being the idea of trickle down economics.
To be pedantic, that’s not consistent with Libertarian dogma from Libertarians I have spoken with. NOAA/Weather was one of the parts of government that they were consistently in favor of being a government service vs privatized, along with defense and other base infrastructure (like the power lines being public while the generators are private). I guess it’s possible that I’ve not gotten updated since 2020, but the logic at least used to be internally consistent there.
Because the Republican/Libertarian dogma is that government does not work and is inherently wasteful, that only private corporations are efficient and good. Their goal is to destroy the entire government and replace it all with private contractors doing the same thing for more money and half as well. Ignoring the fact that they are themselves government workers, and that there are many necessary services that explicitly should not be run to maximize profits, they’re also fundamentally wrong that the government is somehow uniquely wasteful and inefficient. It’s just one of many false beliefs they have, the biggest and most damaging of which being the idea of trickle down economics.
To be pedantic, that’s not consistent with Libertarian dogma from Libertarians I have spoken with. NOAA/Weather was one of the parts of government that they were consistently in favor of being a government service vs privatized, along with defense and other base infrastructure (like the power lines being public while the generators are private). I guess it’s possible that I’ve not gotten updated since 2020, but the logic at least used to be internally consistent there.