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| Authored by: odysseus on Sunday, November 18 2012 @ 05:07 PM EST |
No, it's different to that, the argument is that it should all be paid for
directly to private market providers: private police, private fire engines,
private roads, etc. If you can't afford it, then tough luck. Of course, they
tried that back in the 1800's and found that it didn't work due to network
effects and corruption. Some things just are more efficiently done by a central
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 18 2012 @ 08:48 PM EST |
>* No police (you should protect yourself)
Under the United States Constitution, Law Enforcement is not required to protect
an individual, even if the officer directly witnesses the crime being committed,
and is present at the scene. (I've forgotten the case law, but several new
cases are added each year, because individuals don't realize that neither law
enforcement, nor 911, nor E911 are legally allowed to prevent, or investigate
any criminal activity, except in extremely specific instances, and even then,
only for those who occupy very specific positions of power.
> * No fire department (you are responsible for putting out fires)
I guess you did not know that for most of the United States, the local fire
department is run by volunteers.
Nor do you appear to know that fire brigades were originally run by insurance
companies, as a way of maximizing their profit.
>* No armed forces (you are responsible for defending the country)
The hardest country to conquer, is the country in which the ground troops have
to fight from house to house, praying that they haven't missed anybody who can
use a rifle, during their advance.
Remember why the Japanese didn't invade the lower 48 states of the United
States. Also remember why the Japanese Army selected Alaska as the first state
to invade. (Well back then it wasn't a state, but the point still stands.)
>* No roads
Roads would be privately owned. Odds are, if they connect towns, or cross major
natural barriers, there will be a toll. The overwhelming majority of privately
owned roads in the United States today, can be traversed gratis.
FWIW, the number of privately owned roads in the United States increased
steadily, until the mortgage bust of 2008.
>* No border patrol
The issue that New Mexico and Arizona have, is that the Border Patrol point
blank refuses to do that. Individuals in those states would be much better off,
if they could execute trespassers on the spot.
>* No citizenship
Citizenship is a contractual obligation between the state and the individual. In
theory, it should be mutually beneficial. In practice, as thousands of
Jordanian citizens will testify, citizenship is meaningless, when one can not
fulfill the obligations that such citizenship imposes. Likewise, the State of
Jordan serves as the poster child of what happens when the state refuses to meet
the obligations to its citizens, that the contract imposes upon it.
* No courts
Masonic Jurisprudence pretty much demonstrates why government courts are not
needed. Beth Din, Canon Law, and Sharia Law pretty much underscore that
demonstration.
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