Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!flink From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Financing the government of a free society Message-ID: <392@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 17:52:31 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.392 Posted: Fri Jun 21 17:52:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 04:46:12 EDT References: <3841@alice.UUCP> <1340208@acf4.UUCP> Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Followup-To: net.politics.theory Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 8 Keywords: libertarianism In article <1340208@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes: >I spoke about financing defense a couple of times, but I'm not sure >it involved Koenig's sugestion. What was Koenig's suggestion? Koenig's suggestion was that government (presumably, he meant the entire government, including the defense department) might be financed through "contract enforcement fees", whereby everyone who signed a contract must pay a fee or else the government wouldn't enforce that contract.