meritocrat

Where is your 'proof' that the state cannot be funded by voluntary taxation and user fees?

I'll try and find some economic studies which detail how governments can be financed without taxation.

Cicero

1. I am not going to attempt to prove a negative. You ought to know better than to suggest it.

2. I eagerly await your proof. I am not willing to stake my country's future on another unproven ideology, considering the mess supply-side economics has caused.

MarkW

Where is your 'proof' that the state cannot be funded by voluntary taxation and user fees?

I have already noted the problems with attempting to fund govenment services via voluntary contributions and user fees--see my post earlier in this thread, to which you have not replied.

Mark

Autonemesis

Then I don't see how your system is fee-based, if fees collected for one service can be allocated to pay expenses for supporting some other service. That's pretty much what is done now.

Who determines and enforces these allocation rules, and who pays the user fee to the enforcers of these rules?

Kevbo

Like I already said, the United States, at one time, DID have voluntary taxation! The government that instituted this policy was under the Articles of Confederation, and it failed miserably, which is why there exists the U.S. Constitution. Libertarians want a return to a time that didn't exist in the way that they think it did.

Cicero

"One definition of insanity is to repeat the same thing over and over, and expect a different result"
--Albert Einstien