The problem with these things is most people are ideologues, one way or the other. Staying objective it hard apparently, but if you can pull it together, you stand chance of seeing the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism in every situation and adjusting for it.

Every firstworld country seems to agree that the idea of "public" or "essential" services highlights the failings of rabid libertarians, who say the government should have no role in the roads, or fire departments and the like, the private sector will sort it out. They act as if the government was mining the rocks that went into the gravel that helped pave the road, when all that is (usually) handled privately, as it should be. But the free market is selective, and certain areas of any country would inevitably suffer when the free market has no use for them. Paying taxes is worth the price of not having 3rd world pockets within your society. I think everybody is better for it.