You don't get to pick and choose among the duties and obligations.
Why not? [Warning - pie in the sky, impractical, idea coming]
Why not have a two-track citizenship plan.
Plan A: You receive your basic Constitutional rights, National Defense and police protection, access to Courts, and all the other narrowly defined common goods. You pay a very low tax rate. BUT, you pay fees for all government services, like a fee to drive on roads, to use national parks, to use all government services that now are "free". You are ineligible for welfare, workers comp, low interest loans, Medicare, Social Security, and all the thousands of other government goodies.
Plan B. The current plan everyone is on now.
My belief is that if this scheme were implemented honestly, eventually everyone would be on plan A and plan B would wither on the vine. |
