THE VALUE OF FEDERAL, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. The only value in a feder

THE VALUE OF FEDERAL, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

The only value in a federal government is:

1) Efficiency of the cost and necessity of coordination of defense of territorial borders.

2) Insurer of last resort for regional ‘order’ (government).

3) Treasury of last resort for regions (central bank services)

4) Necessary resolution of disputes of TORTS between regions.

The only value in a regional government:

1) Efficiency in the financing, coordination, and cost of production of transportation and communication infrastructure.

2) Insurer of last resort for natural disasters and local ‘order’.

3) Registry of property of last resort.

4) Necessary Resolution of disputes of torts between locales.

The responsibility and value in local government is:

1) Efficiency and Decidability in the cost of production of commons.

2) Insurer against incapacity (illness, employment, age)

3) Treasury

4) Registry of property titles

The responsibility and value in family (familial ‘government)

1) insurance against unearned offspring,and the production, raising, education, training of earned offspring.

2) insurance against the vicissitudes of age.

3) efficiency in the production of that commons we call ‘household’