Yeah. And I don't need the fire department because I have fire insurance. If the place burns down the insurance will rebuild. And it is up to me to make sure that I have preserved personal belongings somewhere else so that if the place does burn I don't lose everything that is important to us. Of course my fire insurance would go from Class 3 to Class Nothing which might raise my premium a bit.
The police department does nothing for me. I have never called them. I do see them wasting taxpayer dollars driving through my neighborhood a couple of times a day. They should be funded by user fees and I could opt out.
Our local city library just finished a fund raising project that took two years to be able to obtain matching funds from the state for the expansion of the building and services. Why should all the taxpayers have to support the library? Only about 15% of the local population bothers to go to the library. A few more avail themselves of the free online access. Let everybody pay if they want to use it.
And paying for the public hospital with taxpayer money seems to be outrageous. After all, I have Medicare.
On this or another board I saw a thread where the theme was that local airports don't need federal or state money. They should just finance airport improvements locally. I didn't, however, see any numbers presented to suggest how much each of the local citizens/businesses would have to put in to pay for the runway extension/refurb.
Who needs government?
