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In your system, courts and law are not part of the government?
No? Government is the people currently elected. Nothing to do with courts. And law was decided by previous governments. Giving money to the current/future government to create new law which you like is called lobbying, or bribing (whatever floats your boat).
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Yeah, but they don’t benefit from public health services, since they can pay for a private insurance with a higher quality of services. They don’t benefit from social benefits, since they have much more efficient ways of making money. They don’t benefit from public schools personally, since they can send their children to private schools. So if I were to go with the reasoning that people should pay for received servi…
Those things are nice, but the benefits are a rounding error compared to the benefit that the rich get from government enforcing the existence of property rights.
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No? Government is the people currently elected. Nothing to do with courts. And law was decided by previous governments. Giving money to the current/future government to create new law which you like is called lobbying, or bribing (whatever floats your boat).
Taxes don't only pay for what you have defined as "government". They pay for everything the state does, including courts and enforcement of laws.