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Ah, but I wouldn't go to a

Submitted by rstlne on February 21, 2008 - 19:54.

Ah, but I wouldn't go to a bar like that. That's because I don't drink. But even if I did drink, I wouldn't go to a bar like that because I would prefer to be charged for a beer the same amount as anyone else, not according to how much I can pay.

Think about the flip side though: What if we paid for government the same way we pay for beer? In other words, what if we pay a user fee for government services that we consume? Wouldn't government become more efficient because they can't waste money on projects that no one needs? Wouldn't government become just another service provider in competition with private service providers, instead of crowding out the private sector the way it does now?

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