[105239] in Cypherpunks
Re: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vladimir Z. Nuri)
Mon Nov 9 00:44:22 1998
To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
cc: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer),
vznuri@netcom13.netcom.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Nov 98 18:40:36 CST."
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 98 21:28:00 -0800
From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Reply-To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Jim-- nice idea.
what we really need is a government which can personalize its
services, and people pay for what they use. more and more this
is becoming technically feasible. it will bring the potential
of capitalistic competition and free markets to govt. how?
well services that no one uses will tend to whither, and
the healthy ones will receive greater budgets.
so it's not so much a dichotomy, "those who want to pay
for govt and those that don't". it's more like "every person
should be free to pick and choose to pay what they use".
the big quandary is people who can't pay for what they use
like social security. ultimately the question is how much
money the state has the authority to collect for this kind of
thing, and the political answer has varied every year, but it
has gone up every year in the 20th century generally.
the big problem imho is fraud/waste/corruption in govt though.
I think if a lot of it were eliminated we would be flabbergasted
at how little a personal contribution it takes to take care
of people who need it. bureaucracies are the most expensive
thing on the planet. here's hoping that cyberspace will cut
through the *ultimate* middleman: govt.
