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Originally posted by Moneyguy1
Gee, I pay my taxes willingly as part of the cost of freedom. Never has anyone come to my door from any level of government with a gun and demanded money!!

Now, Bob, that's disengenuous at best. Government violence doesn't require them to come to your house with guns, that they come to the homes of others with guns is well known and documented hundreds if not thousands of times each year. Whether you admit it or not, your taxes are in fact removed from you at gun point.

Then again, we have never tried anarchy here. Think it would work each man (and women) for themselves?

That's not what would happen, Bob. Most of the associations we have now are by mutual agreement between interested parties. I've documented many times out here that no one person should determine how our society should work because no one person knows how it should work. See this article for an explanation. this is why government planning, for anything, doesn't work. Note also that private police forces are the fastest growing segment of law enforcement in America, that I have three private garbage services to chose from, two satellite TV companies to chose from (with more likely), and so forth.

Also, note, that America got along quite well as a near anarchy in most places, and it was those living in specific areas of the country that little by little imposed strict government rule over Americans, almost always for profit via the threat of or actual government violence.