Yelling "Fire" in a crowded place

Try to get your brain working. If everybody could opt out of what they dislike paying for, how many people in this country would opt out of funding foreign aid or a Superpower military? Far more than would opt out of Social Security and Medicare. How many would opt out of high tech research programs, NASA, and other expensive programs that have made America great? Way too many. Many people would opt out of paying for air traffic control, state universities, a coast guard or border patrols. Many would selfishly opt out of everything that they can.

It's a silly notion that a citizen should be able to make government meet his individual needs above all else. It would be frightfully expensive with all the money going to a vast bureaucracy to keep up with everybody's "share." No government on earth has ever or could ever function like this. Not even the French! The most powerful country on earth would self-destruct out of individual greed.

It's a fantasy.

 

Our government is horrible . . . except compared to all of the other governments in the world. And especially compared to the third-world anarchy that you seem to advocate.

 

Depriving the government of all the revenue that would occur with everybody being able to opt out of what he disapproves of would render it ineffective and us without a government.

And before you claim that the present government is ineffective, that's just rhetoric. The present government is not perfect, but it is far from being unable to function.