Does a corporation have 1st Amendment religious rights?

[HoreTore]

Not true at all. IT is usually a major cost saver.

Of course it is, but it's a long way from decreasing costs to nullifying costs.

[rvg]

Of course it is, but it's a long way from decreasing costs to nullifying costs.

Good enough to sufficiently reduce the costs to make the pay-as-you-go system viable.

[Montmorency]

How does a citizen pay for national security? A safety tax?

How does one pay for the military? Residency tax?

How does one pay for police? If a crook victimizes you, you must pay for the privilege of not allowing the crook to commit further crimes against other individuals? What's the difference between that and a generalized tax, besides that it's far more regressive than the latter.

How does one pay for the fire department? Your possessions are burning away, so pay up now to save the rest? Or maybe the rest of the neighborhood will contribute to prevent the fire from spreading and burning down the homes of thousands? Easy to envision a rerun of Crassus...

How does one pay for the justice system? It's already desperately underfunded, and somehow I don't imagine poor criminals would be able to foot the bill. For that matter, how do we pay for prisons? Aside from the criminal aspect, what about lawsuits? If all the awards are confiscated by the state to pay for the process, then what's the point?

For analyzing usage of road systems, there would have to be a camera every 10 feet - a hundred times as many cameras as in all the UK. There would have to be very complex algorithms behind them to work out different classes of vehicles and other data for the price breakdown.

It seems very likely that PAYG is inherently unworkable. Shame on you for even suggesting such nonsense.

[rvg]

It seems very likely that PAYG is inherently unworkable. Shame on you for even suggesting such nonsense.

I'm only saying that it can happen. Nothing more. It might succeed or it might fail, I'm not gonna care since I'll be dead.