Putting aside for a moment the role and function of government.
Well, you really can't. The whole issue of taxation is bound up with the role and function of government.
There is a logical argument that the government is a
service organization that provides services at a nominally equal level.
Maybe logical, but it isn't how the real world works. Look, for example, at farm subsidies. Non farmers don't get even a nominally equal crack at them. Look at schools. Nonparents don't get a shared equity in those costs.
There are, in fact, remarkably few government services that realistically everybody can have an equal opportunity to take advantage of.
Your system would only work if the only things government did were things that all citizens had an equal opportunity to take advantage of.
Not even theoretically possible.
BTW, according to Russell Fears, a lecturer on Roman history, the Roman citizen worked two days a year to pay his taxes. For this he got some of the best roads ever built, a superb military, sewers, a court system, and on and on.
Two days a year for all that. |
