There's a precedent for voluntary contributions towards government. Perhaps if government institutions inspired trust and confidence, while efficiently deliveri

There's a precedent for voluntary contributions towards government. Perhaps if government institutions inspired trust and confidence, while efficiently delivering valuable services, people would be more inclined to donate. As it stands, there's nothing stopping you from donating. As to this being a largely libertarian website, I'm not sure I would accept that generalization. There's a fair amount of support for state programs here. >. One was the method relied on by the old city-state of Hamburg and other communities—voluntary gifts to the government. President William F. Warren of Boston University, in his essay, “Tax Exemption the Road to Tax Abolition,” described his experience in one of these communities: >For five years it was the good fortune of the present writer to be domiciled in one of these communities. Incredible as it may seem to believers in the necessity of a legal enforcement of taxes by pains and penalties, he was for that period ... his own assessor and his own tax-gatherer. In common with the other citizens, he was invited, without sworn statement or declaration, to make such contribution to the public charges as seemed to himself just and equal. That sum, uncounted by any official, unknown to any but himself, he was asked to drop with his own hand into a strong public chest; on doing which his name was checked off the list of contributors. ... Every citizen felt a noble pride in such immunity from prying assessors and rude constables. Every annual call of the authorities on that community was honored to the full. https://mises.org/library/power-and-market-government-and-economy/html/pp/602 https://mises.org/library/power-and-market-government-and-ec...