True, but I think you'll find that it's not the flavour of the government we have today, but the tendency of governments generally, in NZ, whatever the flavour, to try and make what should be non profit services, into profit centres. Once you put profit into the equation, you get greed and dishonesty.
Compare the Health system in NZ and the USA - in NZ it's relatively good, in America you have to pay through the nose and if you miss a payment, you're on the street.
For me, things that should be non profit: (except to allow for maintenance and projected growth), Electricity, Health, Education, Roads, Water, rubbish collection, etc etc etc.
Things that can be profit making: something, that makes something, like, growing sheep, sustainable forestry, tricking tourists out of their money, that sort of thing.
And Stadium sports, wherein the warmup is: release 15 Marketing folk, on one side of the arena and the last one to the other side, is shot in the knee.
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