[Rduke55]

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Roads? Are you kidding me? Privatization would make driving ridiculously expensive.

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How so? Care to explain the assumptions you made and show your calculations? You do claim to be a scientist, don't you?

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I think that privatization's limitation is when a certain service's efficiency is compromised by determining who has paid for the service.

I am pro-privatization in most matters, but there are some that I don't think could be privatized. For example, the military. We need armed forces to protect our welfare (please just accept this as a premise, I don't want to debate it). In theory, the military benefits all members of the nation more or less equally; a war won for us benefits you as much as it benefits me.

So who should pay for it? If it were privatized, it would be correct for a citizen to not pay their military fee, and reap the benefits regardless. But then, there would be no funding. The only reasonable way I see to do it is through taxes.

It's the same way with the police force and arguably a few other services, but I think this is the best example. If anarcho-capitalism can come up with a way to privatize the military without compromising its efficiency, I'd like to hear it.

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Weird, I was just thinking about the military and this. Perhaps some sort of "required donations system" could work in this regard. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]