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Old 11-26-2005, 21:33 PM   #63 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Praxus
There are non-coercive options. A contract fee, for example, would be a payment to the Government to enforce your contract, which could be say 5% of the value of the contract. You could also have lotteries, but this would be limited because the Government wouldn't have a monopoly on lotteries. You could also make a flat "tax" (5-10%) that you could pay before you are allowed to vote or run for office. Basically I think a combination of these would be most effective. These are just options, nothing definitive.
The government provides its people with many more services (firefighters, police, roads, etc.) than the right to vote or run for office. If you want we could get into a discussion of whether these services are better off privately run, but the fact is that they are currently run by the government and we need those services

Also, I don't think a surcharge on twinkies counts as government coercion or discrimination.
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