> I'd just like to see more of the scenarios like we had at BCC back in the day. Some local rich millionaire type (a real estate tycoon) setup an endowment to p

> I'd just like to see more of the scenarios like we had at BCC back in the day. Some local rich millionaire type (a real estate tycoon) setup an endowment to provide free tuition at BCC for any graduate of any Brunswick County high-school. I'd love to see a concerted, nationwide effort to build a coalition of philanthropists of this nature to fund this "free college for everybody" thing, instead of taking it out of the federal govt. budget. I don't understand the libertarian perspective. Why is it so important that people should have the freedom to not participate in "concerted, nationwide efforts" to fund services that benefit the whole society, while you're simultaneously acknowledging that those services should exist. Taxation seems like such a straightforward, simple way to achieve what you've described, at the cost of a freedom (the freedom to not participate), which is a freedom we don't want everyone to exercise anyway (as it means the collapse of the social service in question).