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Originally Posted by Free Market Fred
I propose doing away with taxes altogether, and going to a "users pay" system.
People want police and fire protection, fine, they pay every time they call the cops or fire department for help. As Jesus himself once said, "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
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Clearly and forcefully stated, Brother. I've always liked the idea of the Mayor in every town and city being the one who decided where and when to send the fire department and police. When you have a bureacratic Chief, or, I call them Chieftons, "managing" these departments, really you just have socialism. Much better is to have the people's representative dispatching the safety personnel, collecting the fees (and adding on certain processing fees to cover his own valuable time) and thus serving the public, you have a healthy mixture of business and government.