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Dauric -> RE: toll roads and health care (6/8/2007 11:02:42 AM)
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... Hmm...
The American hospital system is allready on a system where people pay for services recieved by others. This usually shows up in emergency rooms, the only place where the unemployed and homeless can get medical care. More preventative care would (in theory) reduce these emergency costs.
The American economy can't take any taxation on it's roads, It's the primary infrastructure that we use to move from place to place. There's not enough public transportation, and we're too spread out to be able to take a road tax without massive changes to our way of life here.
When Police are doing their job, you should never know they are there. A police force that is worth the tax money keeps the crime down and resolves crisies quicky and with a minimum of impact on everyone else. The military is a similar thing; If they're doing their job, you should never notice it in your day-to-day life.
Libraries are a repository of knowledge and art. To pay for public libraries is one of the ways that we as a society encourage learning and education. Now I'll agree that libraries need to be updated to get with modern technology and update to be available to modern society, but I can't quite convince myself that funding public access to Libraries is not worthwhile.
$0.02,
Dauric.
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