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Re: most of what govts do can be done by business, and donebetter (Re: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force)




At 3:39 PM -0500 11/10/98, Adam Back wrote:
>Vladimir Nuri writes:

>> well consider things like roads,
>
>if you don't drive you shouldn't have to pay for them.

>> libertarians tend to be awfully realistic some times. who pays for
>> roads when everyone uses them?
>
>don't pay not allowed to use.  not everyone uses them to drive cars
>on.

	Roads are the easiest (assuming a government model) things to apply
road use taxes to, simply tax gasoline, oil, and tires. Scale your tire tax
based on weight and apply it to bicycles as well, then everyone (execpt
peds) who uses pays.
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