On a side not, keyboardlover, I probably agree with you on a lot of practicalities. The libertarian ideal would be everyone paying for exactly what they used on a consensual basis, which is a nice idea in theory but if implemented would result in a completely unfair society, with lower income groups getting completely screwed, as well as being too bureaucratic and expensive to implement. I think a good meeting point between that and blanket taxation would be a sort of social cost tax, similar to the "vice" tax idea, where taxes are levied on actions based on their cost of particular groups as a whole, which isn't entirely fair, but still better than everyone paying for it. e.g. A tax on the sale of alcohol, based on the cost alcohol usage has in terms of alcohol-related violence and illness, etc. rather than based on moral arguments. Similarly roads could be funded primarily by fuel taxes and tolls for example. Ultimately driving down general income tax, so it's restricted as much as possible to covering the cost of universal services only, like national security. I also think taxation could be minimized drastically by cutting the amount of unnecessary government expenditure as a whole.
