I can think of three reasons, from least to most libertarian: 1) You're proposing a flat dollar amount be paid as tax by every citizen. This will be most painf

I can think of three reasons, from least to most libertarian: 1) You're proposing a flat dollar amount be paid as tax by every citizen. This will be most painfully felt by the poorest. What sort of society do you think this leads to? 2) The rich do employ a lot of people, whose education and safety were provided for by taxes. Then there's all those road and water networks they use to deliver goods to the markets they own, and the large amount of property and contracts they have that are enforced by the state. So yes, I do believe they use more government services than the average person. 3) Plenty of markets work that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination Furthermore, in a market, the seller sets the price, and the buyer is free to take his business elsewhere. And there's plenty of countries to choose from - so why should government services be different?