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Potential objection 1: Wouldn’t the logistics be a lot of trouble?
Yes, just like it is a “lot of trouble” to earn your own money and then keep it until you need some specific objects at the store and have to buy each one at a separate specific price. I am quite sure that anyone wanting to rob banks thinks it a “lot of trouble” to have consider avoiding police, violating laws and carrying weapons in order to rob banks. Bank robbers think they would have it a lot easier if the bank would just take some of each of their depositor’s money, put it in a bag and leave it on the sidewalk out in front of the bank.
Potential objection 2: Wouldn’t that be embarrassing for anyone needy enough to have to ask for someone else to pay for their child(s) education?
Yes, it just might. And wouldn’t it be a shame if people actually had to CLEARLY IDENTIFY the nature of what they are doing in front of the whole world (or at least the community they live in)? Let me tell you something…If I had no job or money and my child needed tuition money I didn’t have, I don’t give damn how humiliating or degrading it was. And for my kid I would beg or borrow on my knees with my face in the mud before I would depend on some bizarre governmental scheme wherein I wouldn’t have to honestly face reality and clearly state aloud that my child’s education is being financed by other people without their consent.
In Les Misérables Victor Hugo wrote,”… a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked rich man, [is] the wicked poor man.”
What about the roads, though?! The government just pays private companies to pave and fix the roads anyway and is therefore an unnecessary middle man in this arrangement. You could complain that is would be a pain in neck to have to deal with every road being a ‘toll-road’ of sorts but it is the only essentially fair way to run it. You pay for what (and when) you use. Furthermore, the level of current technology would make it easy to implement some form of general monthly/yearly payment to a company that runs sections of roads & you could get a sticker or something to put on your car. The details could be worked out. The important issue is not in the implementation; it is in the method of funding. You want to help pay for or pave the ‘poor section’ of town? Who’s stopping you? Get your checkbook out and make a donation.
Since I mentioned Social Security in this article I want to specify that I am aware some individuals have paid into this system and should in fairness be reimbursed. Any monies any individual have paid into Social Security (or Medicare) should be paid back in full and the program should be phased out until completely dissolved.
Finally I want to mention that I know it costs real money to provide the real (and morally justified) services the government provides: police, law courts, military, fire departments, et cetera. I have been, am and always will be happy and proud to voluntarily contribute to the operational expenses incurred in running the morally justifiable parts of the government that make the United States the freest (and therefore, most moral) country in the history of civilization.