No argument from here about wastage. If I'm paying the rate appropriate for decent services, give me decent services please. Some of it may be as bad as we thin

No argument from here about wastage. If I'm paying the rate appropriate for decent services, give me decent services please. Some of it may be as bad as we think it is (bureaucracies always have some degree of inefficiency), but a lot, thankfully, are managed by more level heads. I encourage people to donate to their local volunteer fire and ambulance services for this very reason. Also, if your local police are having a fundraiser, you should consider helping. You can side-step the inefficiencies of government distribution (and the bickering) if you take an active role in directly funding these essential services. Most of these should also be tax-deductible so you're just basically side-stepping the middle-man (the bureaucracy) and making sure the money is going where it's needed directly. I mean, honestly, considering how many people are clustered together these days, we're just not equipped to deal with the chaos that will come about if there was no social infrastructure. These things run on tax money. There's nothing inherently wrong with being libertarian (after all, the root "liberty" is in there). I'm just very uncomfortable with the casual disregard for all authority, order and in many cases, common sense, that some folks who claim to be libertarian tend to espouse. Last I checked being libertarian required a great deal of common sense, a sense of fairness and above all else, order and self-control.