How about recognizing that government is the only entity that can “provide a service” that an individual doesn’t want and then force everyone to pay for it? The logical extension is that if you have to FORCE people to pay for something then that probably is NOT a good idea. The next realization is that people should be allowed to CHOOSE peacefully and without coercion those services that they want and those that they don’t. They can then pay for those used.
If MickyD’s said “everyone has to buy soda”, then my wife who doesn’t like their soda, wouldn’t shop there and they’d suffer. But, if it was the government, she had to pay for that soda even when she wouldn’t drink it.
It’s all about FORCE. The government will kill you if you don’t go along with it. Try not paying your taxes or not showing up for a speeding ticket.
We DO NOT have to pay taxes. We can pay for the services we use and NOT pay for the one’s we don’t want.
We DON’T have to give up local control. I can choose Burger King, McDonalds, or Theo’s to get a hamburger. Is there duplication? Yes. But, I am not FORCED to subsidize the joint that I don’t like.
If this was a private enterprise supplying a valuable service, the employees could take the service “private”. It happens on Wall Street, Information Technology, Drugs, and the Internet all the time. They may lose a job and find a career!
Pensions. Guess the judges and politicans will not be able to rip off the future taxpayers by working “multiple full time jobs”, “many part time jobs”, or packing the pensions with sick time and OT. We’ve been getting ripped off for a long time. It’s time that it stopped!
Campaign finance reform! Please, let’s stop kidding ourselves. It’s about free speech. If there wasn’t Big Government, then there’d be NO NEED for campaign finance reform.
IMHO, you’re shifting all so slowly to the realization that the taxes are not needed. The market place can be used to peacefully supply all our needs. The voluntary free exchange is the way to freedom.
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