I never signed no stinking social contract. When I buy houses and cars, I sign innumerable documents. Heck, you have to sign every time you get a new app, probably including substack. Taxes are the price we pay for the uncivilized parts of society.
I never signed no stinking social contract. When I buy houses and cars, I sign innumerable documents. Heck, you have to sign every time you get a new app, probably including substack. Taxes are the price we pay for the uncivilized parts of society.
"Taxes are the price we pay for the uncivilized parts of society."
this is an apt formulation. those "public goods" that the public values above their cost to provide need not be funded by collectivist taxes. they can be paid for by user fees of one sort or another.
it is only those programs for which the public would NOT voluntarily pay (and that therefore are always non pareto optimal) that must be funded in such fashion.
I never signed no stinking social contract. When I buy houses and cars, I sign innumerable documents. Heck, you have to sign every time you get a new app, probably including substack. Taxes are the price we pay for the uncivilized parts of society.
"Taxes are the price we pay for the uncivilized parts of society."
this is an apt formulation. those "public goods" that the public values above their cost to provide need not be funded by collectivist taxes. they can be paid for by user fees of one sort or another.
it is only those programs for which the public would NOT voluntarily pay (and that therefore are always non pareto optimal) that must be funded in such fashion.