The Dink Network

I'm not going to dispute your dismissal of the definition, I'm much to tired at this point. What I will dispute is your idea that you can *opt out* of public services. That's not possible. How would you opt out of national defence? Mercinaries? For every person? That's just not feasible. What about if there were two neighbooring buildings, and only one had paid for fire protection. Would the fire deparment have to look up, see that the fire protection was paid up, and then race over, and only save the people from the one building. To everyone else, well, sorry, we can't help you. Would every road be a toll road? Who would man the tolls? Would you have to run your own power lines? Would you have to have a mound in the backyard, as you wouldn't have public sewers. What about the media. There would be no more television, radio or any form of transmision, as the government body that controls the airways would be overrun by people that would set up their own transmision towers and they would just *opt out* of the national system. So bye-bye comunications. You like the enviroment? Well, it's gone now, as the agencies can't really stop anyone from strip mining that forest if the people doing so have opted out. You like the air? Oh, so sorry. How dare I make the air black with soot and ash after I opted out of those silly clean air acts. How would a person go about opting in or out of the united nations. What would that mean? You don't need to abide by international law anymore? If taxes were abolished, who would pay for the police? Would everyone have to start paying protection money?

Just think of the massive middle management that would be required to set up this ground level, only pay for what you use infrastructure. You would end up paying more than double than what you were paying before, and you wouldn't be getting half of it.

Your ideas *might* work in a utopia but a utopia is, by definition, an unchanging state of afairs and it would be unimaginably boring. And also fiction. Remember, not everyone has your set of morals. And the people that actually do things usually have a much different set of ideas of what's right and what's wrong than the people who dream up utopias. Usually people who dream up utopias are people who have never had to work in a farm, or do any manual labor for little to no pay.

Government is required, and so are taxes. Anyone that thinks otherwise is a hopeless, closeminded, fool.