TAXES FOR THE COMMONS I have no problem paying for commons – when they’re in fac

TAXES FOR THE COMMONS

I have no problem paying for commons – when they’re in fact commons. I have a big problem with paying extortionary rents. And I have an even larger problem with paying for damage to the commons that we have built over millennia. People have no problem paying taxes that they agree with and many problems paying for taxes that they don’t agree with. The solution of course is to let people pay for what they agree with and not for what they don’t agree with. Representatives are for sale. Remove the agent from the principle agent problem. (Conversely I have an equally large problem with free riders on the commons.)

I think I’m going to put together a web application with a budget model of the US Government and your extant taxes, and we’ll see how people would vote their money.

That is a wonderful social science experiment. 😉