I propose that government be run like a business. Businesses are allowed to charge for the services they provide, and rent for the use of their property, but they are not allowed to levy taxes. So in order to make government function as a business, we must abolish, at every level, the governments ability to levy taxes on its citizens or against their personal property. What I propose is that government charge a fee (not a tax) for the use of government services and infrastructure. To this end, I propose that government operate an office within each community, where people can come in and contract with government to buy the governments services. For instance, an individual could go into the government office and say Hey, there is a guy selling some land at this location, if I buy that land, how much will you charge me annually to protect my land title there? to which the government would say Lets see, the going rate of protective services at that location is $3,000 annually, if you buy the land and you want us to protect that title, just let us know and we will write a contract for you to sign I propose that this government be empowered by the people to create and maintain right-of-way passages between privately owned land parcels. In return, the government would be required to offer free protection of all of its customers as they occupy the right-of-way areas between privately owned land parcels. However, once you leave those right-of ways, the government would no longer be required to offer any protective services for free. In other words, on privately owned land, this government office would charge whatever the market would bear, should the landowner decide to buy the governments protective services. Individual landowners would be allowed to buy protective services from any business, or not buy any at all, but if they want access to the government established right-of-ways, and the services provided thereon, they would have to buy those services from the government. Obviously this is just a rough outline of how government could be run as a for profit business. This for profit business could offer any service which it felt would increase the profits of the business. For instance, if the government decided that providing free education and healthcare to its customers would increase the demand for its protective services, and access to the right-of-ways, then it could buy the necessary land, build and staff the facilities, and hope that the customers start offering more in exchange for access to those services. As this government business is limited by the area of the community, the competition for this business would be provided by the other thousands of communities scattered across the nation, and the desire of these government businesses to increase their profits As I said this is just a quick rough outline, to be refined as time allows.
Unfortunately, government rarely acts like a government as it is. Government is obsessed with financing and increasing revenue so that they stopped making the protection of the public a top priority. For example, police patrol high volume traffic areas and allow reckless driving in neighborhoods. Why? It is cost effective to write a large volume of tickets to increase revenue on main road and patrolling neighborhoods isn't as lucrative. Businesses and governments should have different motivations to ensure a vibrant economy and to protect the public. Mixing the two is a bad idea and I think the state of government regulation will prove that to be true.
Without revenue to pay those cops' salaries, those patrols can not be made. Revenue is needed to pay for the things the government does.
Obviously. But the point of government is to grow more government and revenue is the Miracle-Gro of government. When revenue trumps public safety, like it has today, then there are problems.
I must admit, I am feeling pretty much on top of the world, for in this thread I have discovered how to show the libertarians for the government loving, wealth redistubution loving, hypocrites that they really are. What libertarians really want is for government to tax other people in order to fund government services, such as protective services and/or infrastructure placement, which will benefit them, but without having to pay for it. That is why libertarians are always calling for “limited” government, that is code for limited to services which will make them wealthier, but at the cost of others. In this thread I have proposed the abolishment of taxes, proposed a for profit entity for the provision of services, and have made all contracts voluntary. These are all things that libertarians pretend to support. So why don’t the libertarians support this proposal? That would be because this system would charge them market rates in order to tie their property to the services and infrastructure which are provided by others. Libertarians want to tie their land to these services and infrastructure for free, they want other people to pay for these services and infrastructure, through taxes on trade, or a flat tax on income … they are really parasites. I will admit right now that some libertarians are not parasites, and offer myself as an example, but most libertarians do have parasitical intentions. They love government and wealth redistribution just as much as any self professed socialist, the only disagreement is over the terms by which the wealth redistribution should occur. For all those libertarians who truly believe in freedom and liberty, and want to earn your rewards through productive effort, I apologize profusely for any agitation I may have caused you. I am aiming this accusation at the fake libertarians, or royal libertarians as they are sometimes called.
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