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Re:People who make $250,000 or more a year can afford a tax ... by fleitz on Friday February 05, 2010 @06:04PM (#1105194)
I believe you are conflating society and government, and I'd actually be very much in favor of the gov't providing bills for it's services so that I could cancel the "services" I don't want, and/or find alternate providers.
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Re:People who make $250,000 or more a year can afford a tax ... by _delirium on Friday February 05, 2010 @06:15PM (#1105227)
It's not clear how some of the services would work if there were opt-in though. If I opt out of the government-provided property-rights system, for example, but someone else doesn't, what happens? If we have a dispute over who owns a particular piece of land, usually a court resolves that. But I've opted out of the government court system, so how do we resolve this dispute? By force of arms?
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