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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Financing the government of a free society
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 19:32:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 13 19:32:00 1985
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>/* flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) /  5:26 pm  Jun 12, 1985 */

>
>It depends what you want to finance.  This issue was raised by
>someone who wanted to know how national defense would be financed.  In
>order to finance the army, the government will have to charge a fee 
>that will be higher than the fees private companies charge for courts
>and enforcement.  Thus, people will go to the private companies

I don't follow what you're saying, but these seem to be separate but
related issues.  Of course, we cannot have competing armies, and armies
cannot be replaced by courts + police.  I didn't see anyone suggest this.

>"Libertarians -- keeping the world safe from democracy"

What is so great about democracy.  I see no inherent moral value in it,
but it does seem like the best system for choosing governments.  Libertarianism
does not deal with how governments are chosen (at least mine doesn't), but
rather what is the proper role of government.  The question of how to choose
a government seems to me to be a technical question, though obviously a
critical one.

					Mike Sykora