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Then vote for someone who wants to remove all forms of taxation?

But I can't tell if you seriously think society would be better without taxes. Would you like to have private police, a private army, private courts of law, a private environmental protection agency, etc?



>Then vote for someone who wants to remove all forms of taxation?

It's not about who you vote for, it's about voting. You basically sign an unmarked contract where the name is left blank, and filled in after the election, and you put in your preference on the contract for who should fill that in.

If your ideal is that you don't want to be restrained by such contract, you wouldn't sign the damn thing, putting your preference as someone who "might" not use the contract to restrain you.


How private forms of several of the things you mentioned can work:

"The Machinery of Freedom" by David Friedman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o


Society would certainly be better without payroll taxes. I'm willing to concede that consumption based taxes would be a necessary evil.




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