I don't understand why taxes can be used to save property but not a person.

Noumenon72 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The article explains why; regulators sometimes can't foresee that their decision to consider something fee for service will eventually prevent it from being considered as a communal expense.

	▲	softdevca 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fee-for-service doesn't prevent ambulances from being considered a communal expense, it just makes sticky. There is nothing preventing a government from making ambulances equivalent to fire or police except the will. From the article: "The most efficient way to fund ambulance services would simply be to pay for the option the way that options are normally paid for: with a premium, collected from everyone the service stands ready to rescue". In other words, taxation just like anything else we expect to be available to anybody.

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lokar 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure you do. Most people don’t own property. Most of the taxes are paid by people who do. And elections are decided by people with property.

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jfengel 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because we like property.