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Old 10-13-2012, 12:57 AM   #40
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Fine, as long as you don't expect the fire department to help you if your house catches fire, or to have roads to drive your car on, or schools to educate your children in, or a postal service to deliver your mail, or any of the other services that taxes pay for.
Counterexample: private schools and fire services, toll roads built and financed by private companies, and delivery services that will bring packages to your door in brown trucks.

BTW, the USPS doesn't really work in your example. It's more of a government-approved monopoly on private letter handling and is not tax-supported in any meaningful sense.

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Anyone who decides not to pay tax, is presumably opting out of the use of every service which taxes fund.
An alternative interpretation: they would to choose the vendor[s] of the same or similar services, free from coercion, grants of monopoly, and threat of imprisonment and/or confiscation of property.

When I wanted a wife I looked and found a mutually-agreeable arrangement. It was a critical, life-affecting decision but somehow I did not require taxes extracted from me to fund the search for and assignment of same.


Yours in friendly-if-offtopic conversation, etc, etc,
your friendly neighborhood anarcho-capitalist.
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