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caa@unify.com (Chris Anderson) writes:
> According to Andrew A. Alexis <ndlxs@netcom.com>:
> > caa@unify.com (Chris Anderson) writes:
> > > According to Andrew A. Alexis <ndlxs@netcom.com>:
> > > > rfinch@water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) writes:
> > > > 
> > > > Tell me...do you think paying taxes is "stealing"?  If so, consider 
> > > > your self, as a state employee,  the receiver of stolen goods...
> > > 
> > > You speak in jest, but I do consider taxes to be exactly that: stealing.
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > 
> > So..exactly WHICH government services are you not willing to pay for?
> > Roads? Medical Research? National Defense? Employment offices? Medicare?
> > Social Security? Air Traffic Controllers? Diplomacy with other countries
> > to avoid war?  Maintenance of Publicly owned forests and lands? 
> > Environmental Protection?  Prosecution of Criminals?  Prisons?
> > Which one of these services, funded by your taxes, should the
> > government NOT provide? (Notice I left welfare out of the discussion...)
> 
> As I see it, government should have three functions: maintain a standing
> army for defense, administer tariffs and treaties, and maintain a
> judicial system.  I can also make a case for the National Park System,
> though it's not "pure" theory.  *Everything* else, as far as I can tell, 
> is unfair competition for the commercial sector.
> 
> I'm not big on government, as you can tell...
> 
> Chris

OK...Company A puts toxic wastes in the river upstream from where
Anytown, USA gets its water.  What is to be done?  The court system as
it is now is hopelessly overcrowded with criminal cases, and resolution of
lawsuits takes years.  Who decides how much of company A's waste the
river can handle?  Who enforces the limit? Who tests the water?

Another example..California has many State and National Forests.  Given
that a certain amount of logging is ok in these forests at a level that
will not endanger the forests in the long term, who decides how much logging
is permissable?  Who puts out the fires?  

Who builds the roads?  Who maintains them?

Also...who guards the border against illegal immigrants?
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Andy Alexis(ndlxs@netcom.com OR araalex@dbserv2.teale.ca.gov)
Sacramento, CA  "The Pearl of the Central Valley"