> You might disagree with the wars that your country prosecutes, or what the police do, but you cannot just "take the tax money and choose how to spend it" for

> You might disagree with the wars that your country prosecutes, or what the police do, but you cannot just "take the tax money and choose how to spend it" for military, nor police, nor any other commons. I know that this is not what being discussed, but just for the sake of exchanging some ideas... In my ideal model for governance, this would be possible. In my ideal taxation model, we would only pay taxes at the most local sphere: municipalities. And everything would be either based/budgeted on either (a) insurance funds or (b) service fees. States and Federal Government would then only as act as managers of mutual insurance funds between the cities themselves. IOW, it would all be a giant bottom-up insurance/re-insurance system. This way, the allocation of funds going to military spending wouldn't be determined by the individual, but it would be very close to that. Healthcare as well. Education could be financed both via a "service fee" (to cover the regular, cheap students) and an insurance fee (to cover for students with special needs). So those without kids and those that want to put their kids on private school would be able to claim a deduction for the "service part", but still had to contribute for the insurance part.