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> Once you've paid off your property do you stop having a need for fire and police services? roads and transport infrastructure? trash collection? Of course no
by Xcelerate 6y ago
> Once you've paid off your property do you stop having a need for fire and police services? roads and transport infrastructure? trash collection?
Of course not, but those should be shifted to the taxes and fees for corresponding services. In some places, fire protection is already paid directly to the fire department. Roads and transport should be automobile and gas taxes. Trash collection goes to the trash service.
- klipt 6y agoWhat about public schools?
- antisthenes 6y ago> Of course not, but those should be shifted to the taxes and fees for corresponding services. At the very least, the argument against doing that is so that you, as a homeowner don't have to manage an additional 10-20 accounts to pay the monthly bill for all those services. It creates an administrative overhead that isn't necessary, and would just siphon more money into the bureaucratic machine rather than fixing issues. That's why taxes are bundled and usually pay for a bunch of things at once, rather than having to pay separately for every little thing. It may sound nice as a libertarian thought experiment, but there's a reason it's almost never done in practice.