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In most western countries there are few state-run enterprises so there's little "government's money". There's taxpayer's money, and they care how it's spent.

Every time I think about that it strikes me as a dumb idea. Everything that cant be allowed to fail should be a government enterprise.

I would go nuts with the concept, turn city hall into a museum, hotel, grandcafe, restaurant, cinema, casino, conference rooms, desks for rent, city tour guides, etc etc open 24/7. Live music if there are no council meetings on the big screen. It should have a room to smoke weed too.

If you ignore how silly it sounds, what do you think the revenue will be like?

More and more things will become too important to fail, in this scheme. ;)

Perhaps but we currently err on the other side.

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