> Do you have any justification in mind for the “free service” being funded by tax payers? Why should it be free for the people who need it, and why should tax payers fund it?

Because the government should provide useful services. It should be funded by tax dollars because I'm tried of libertarians, and it's well-demonstrated that the free market has consumer hostile incentives that I'm sick of.

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999900000999 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Alright cool.

Your assuming the local government employed webmaster won't favor his friends restaurants.

Craigslist basically is this, and it's more or less free.

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xmprt 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Forgive me for assuming that the government owned service would be more transparent/serve the people better than a privately owned, closed source, platform that's explicitly funded by ads and so is transparently corrupt. Even your worst case scenario for this would be equivalent to what we already have.

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