Voluntary funding of roads, firefighting, and police

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Coercive taxation should be abolished. It’s immoral to forcibly take people’s wealth. When I say this to people, I often get a question like: “Then how will roads and firefighters and police be paid for?” My answer is: Voluntarily. But I can be more specific.

In the case of roads, more specifically highways, they could be funded by tolls or by selling space to advertisers on billboards, or both. In business or residential areas, the cost of roads could be factored into the cost of renting office space or of buying a home, so when businesses pay their rent or homeowners make mortgage payments, they are also helping to pay for local roads.

In the case of firefighting, you might have an option to pay relatively small monthly premiums for fire insurance. Or you might opt not to buy fire insurance and take the risk of having to pay a relatively large amount for service only if and when needed.

Police protection could be paid for by donations and/or a government lottery.

So that’s a bit about how voluntary funding of roads, firefighting, and police could work. There may be other voluntary funding methods as well.

What do you think? Could this work? Let me know in the comments.

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