The Best Way for Governments to Raise Revenues

At federal, state, and local governments, all revenues should be voluntary gifts. Governments should be allowed to pay for advertisements about what a great job they’re doing. But in collecting revenues, no coercion would be permitted.

Services not provided by government, if desired, would be furnished by profit-making enterprises or by voluntary gifts.

Citizens would give, all right; I certainly would. But the government sector of the United States would nevertheless fall from the current 38 percent of the Gross National Product to something like 8 percent. This is where it stood a century ago, and where it belongs today.