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To: IC720 who wrote (1574888)	12/4/2025 10:36:46 AM
From: Maple MAGA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580213

They’re both stealing from Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand believed that taxation is a form of theft and that in a free society, government services like the police, courts, and military should be funded through voluntary payments. She argued that these services are so demonstrably necessary that citizens would willingly pay for them, similar to how they would purchase insurance, as long as the government's role is limited to protecting individual rights and not infringing upon them. Taxation is theft: Rand considered the government's power to tax as the non-consensual taking of an individual's property. Voluntary funding: She proposed a system where government services are paid for voluntarily because their value is directly tied to the citizens' interests and rights. Limited government function: The only legitimate purpose of government, in her view, is to protect individual rights from coercion, and it should not be involved in economics, welfare, or economic regulation. Service-based fees: Some argue that a voluntary system could work by having the government charge for its services (like contract enforcement and national defense) and withhold those services from those who don't pay, though this method still has a coercive element, notes The Economist and Atlas Society. A "fully free society": She believed such a system of voluntary financing would only be possible in a truly free, capitalist society.