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  • Thanks for this thoughtful reply. Given paying taxes to fund society level infrastructure is considered, where do we draw the line on services that are needed vs those that should be self funded by the individual?

    Is the line around things that impact a broad group of people are funded (like roads, military, etc) but things that only benefit an individual (like healthcare, education) should be self funded?


  • I’m genuinely curious about the fiscally conservative bit. When I hear that phrase I always assume people mean “I don’t want to pay taxes” but my immediate next question becomes how do you believe societal level infrastructure is constructed and maintained. Things like roads, police, military. I’ve never seen a society with private infrastructure for those things. An immediate second question, assuming you are OK with a small level of taxation to accommodate the costs of the three things listed above would be, what other society level services would fall into the bucket of things that should be paid from taxation vs things that should be privatised. Things like disaster recovery services, judicial services, child welfare services, national security, border protection. I’m going to also assume you object to education and healthcare being a taxation funded expense? What about currently public buildings like libraries? Parks? Town Halls?