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Technical question - what is your expectation: -no government (in package goes rampant crime and risk/hope that local warlords or external power would reintroduce a gov)? -night watch government with very low taxes (offers police, small army, a bit of infrastructure and nothing more, everything else paid privately)? -some different government that would fit your ethical believes (but how such gov is supposed to work without tax money)? |
2 would be nice, but again, probably unworkable.
3 we're talking a more realistic situation.
I'm not saying that there should be no taxes anywhere ever, or that nothing government does is good ever; that's actually crazy. What I'm saying is that a choice between 'government by armed warlords' and 'government by corrupt shills' is a really shitty choice. Democracy seems to inevitably devolve into the 'corrupt shills' format, while the other forms tend to devolve into the 'armed warlords' format, and both suck.
Ideally, I'd like a government that's actually transparent, responsible, and accountable, instead of merely theoretically aspiring to those properties. I'd like a government whose first and foremost duty really is to its people, and not merely to the people bribing it. Going into really far-out and unexplored territory, I'd like a government that taxed minimally and fairly, invested its money in the same sense that a corporation would, with the aim of ultimately making profits enabling it to be self-sufficient, not reliant on any taxes, and reinvesting its profits in its people and infrastructure.
But all of that is so different from any nation that actually exists as to be almost meaningless.