Except it is payment for services rendered, not theft.
I can cancel my Netflix subscription. I can't cancel my government "subscription". I can't fire them. How is it a service if I can't fire them? That's why I call it theft.
You can avoid using Netflix, but you can't avoid the public roads, as long as you live in the country. That's why you either have to pay taxes or leave the country for the jungle.
I can't avoid public roads? Are you seriously saying this? Also, using raids as the single justification for taking nearly half of my income is just laughable (which they aren't BTW)
Yes, you can. You can also rape babies. That you can doesn't mean you should. Like advocating the systematic theft. I don't think running away from this cancer is moral. So I don't.
I don't think running away from the cancer of people advocating systematic theft is moral. So I don't. How does my staying here validate my being stolen from?
"stable area" is so far removed from the myriad of entitlements the gov redistributes. many people would be happy paying just for that. dont want all the crap gov dreams up.
Ah, that sounds very libertarian. A limited government still needs to collect taxes, just far less. Likely could survive off of just sales tax, and no income tax.
yeah it is ;P lol. sales tax only would be nice. & i wonder how far donations only could go (esp for things like helping the poor but also for defense).
I think defense can not have such uncertainty. I would want him still funded by taxes. Same with thigs like water and sewage. Healthcare and social security as well.
The market provides many things stably. Its not always the same people but the result is the same. Grocery store is a good example. Gov isn’t need to say each store must stock bread.
“Follow market forces” really just means people respond to price information. If price information is corrupted or obscured (as in healthcare) then yes, market forces do not work.
I think it is the product that is the main problem. Life, or death, often make it an immeasurable problem. Also it is cheaper to prevent, than treat usually.
unlike political solutions that restrict the use of historical data that is "racist" or "sexist" or whatever by current political standards to accurately price insurance
true, though this would bias survival to people who plan, & people who can afford to be reckless (though they would be draining their resources at a faster rate).
The solution though is to return to accurate price information (freer market), not to further obscure price information by adding new rules, laws, and bureaucracy.
That would be helpful at least. There are a lot of ways prices have been obscured over time. I think Americans often pay more for drugs to cover selling them cheaper in poor nations.
& you're right prices can be inelastic (needing treatment for a life-threatening disease). But markets generally create alternatives & competition drives down prices/increases quality
Pharmaceutical companies give away a lot of parasite drugs to third world nations for free. Some of the cheaper drugs are to compete with generic versions though. Some are offset price