so by what method of transportation do you get the material goods that you find valuable? is it just through private transportation. we are using the internet, that's not something that has been created only through private methods.
one way to measure wealth could be access to food, cities have more access to food usally than people living in cabins in alaska who farm and hunt . stories donate all sorts of food to people in cities and there are shortages in alaska wild.
how many people don't use public resources? if more people use public resources, would that not mean that more people subjectivly value them more than living without connection to them? if all public resources were privitised, would people reject these now private resources in favor of resources that have never touched public funds?
sure wealth can be subjective, but it's more objective that a lot of business goes on with the usage of public roads, and would go on with the usage of those roads should those roads have been private or should they become private.
roads would be made privately if not made publicly, so roads are seen as value by many that use roads with or without government.
sure, people want people to volunteer to pay for stuff people like. these things would still be built without government, and no need to call for the government to tax to build them.
if more people use public resources, would that not mean that more people subjectivly value them more than living without connection to them?
sure wealth can be subjective, but it's more objective that a lot of business goes on with the usage of public roads
and would go on with the usage of those roads should those roads have been private or should they become private. roads would be made privately if not made publicly, so roads are seen as value by many that use roads with or without government.
governments don't build roads that noone voted for , so i don't think people that vote for a tax for roads counts as a person being stolen from when they voted for it. it's only the people who don't want to be part of the system that are stolen from, those that would not tax.
a lot of people use roads made before they were born or before they moved into the area, so no chance to make a road before it is made.
government taxes still leave plenty for people to build roads, people have enough to run business that use public roads, so i assume they would have enough to build the road itself. lack of space for new roads is not solved by private roads, as there is still limited space and natural monopoly and a area can only have so much going on at one time.
private roads representing more wealth does not mean public roads represent no wealth. don't think i said government was not superfluous, just that it was more than zero wealth.
say government takes 50% of profits, how could the government then do something that could not be done in the private sector?
if i sell that video and make products and end up with more wealth than before, sure i feel more wealthy, because i would be. if more people are able to do more business with me because of it, sure that can make me more wealthy.
someone could end up with more wealth if the wealth is donated, traded, or stolen, depending on circumstances. traded and donated will be more, but it does not mean by neccicity that stolen wealth cannot make a person more wealthy.
100-10=90
90+20=110
110>100
130>120
As many as possible? No. A large number? Obviously. The welfare-state in the US wasn't created in a fit of absentmindedness.
They know what they're doing.