How to fund the state?

[Nathyn]

@Libertas est Veritas

I am an anarcho-capitalist at heart, but from a pragmatic viewpoint, I am still a minarchist. But seeing coercion and economic intervention as bad, I have been wondering how funding a minarchist state would be possible.

I have been toying with the idea of voluntarily funded state programs. This would allow even things like social security for the disabled, etc.

Any thoughts on that? Or perhaps alternative funding methods that would still be minimally intrusive?

Quote them in a private stockmarket, maybe?

People aren’t going to just pay taxes for public goods. However, if the investment had a return, such as with funding the government through actual public quoting of the “full faith and credit” of the government might be one proposal. If faith were lost in the government’s ability to government, the value of the stock would drop. That, in turn, would drive people to invest in the government again but only if the government had the credibility to reduce such corruption. And, in general, the government would avoid corruption because, otherwise, their stock would fall through the floor.

@Inquisitor

I have to ask - are you serious?

“Freedom costs a buck 'o five.”

-Team America: World Police

[purplemage]

@JimS

How about this idea: funding the state through selling of votes.

Say there are 100 eligible voters in a community. Each eligible voter gets one vote, so that’s 100 votes. Then there’s an auction for 20% more votes. Proceeds from the auction becomes the source of funding of the government. Voting (by all 120 votes) takes place after the auction is closed. All government programs voted into existence at this election have a sunset date that is the next election. It’s a voluntary tax on the political junkies If you really like your pet program, you’d better pay for it through buying votes. When people realize it’s really less expensive to just make things happen through private funding instead of buying votes and vote it into existence, the government gradually gets replaced by private voluntary institutions.

Wierd, I also had a similar idea, except people buy votes.

But your idea sounds better.

[CactusClef]

This is an interesting concept. Like fractional reserve banking, we increase the supply of votes instead of the supply of money.

Inflationary polling.