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Getting people to pay for all of those things is what taxes are for. If it was completely voluntary how many people would actually pitch in to pay for all of these services?

What about the communities that are unable to afford these services?

It’s very easy to imagine that in your scenario that the very wealthy segment themselves off to pay for private services while everyone else suffers.



> If it was completely voluntary how many people would actually pitch in to pay for all of these services?

Government is the system where everyone expects to live at everyone elses expense. I ask you, if you believe nobody wants to pay for it, why do you think people want it at all?

> What about the communities that are unable to afford these services?

Government does not make it affordable. Government does not pay for it: someone pays for it, the government takes a cut, and gives it to someone else.


What is your proposition? How should things be run?


As local and voluntary as possible, in today's framework.




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