Opinion Poll: How should these services be paid?

Question

What is your view. Should each of the following be paid from personal funds or from the general tax revenues:

a) police service.

b) fire service.

c) public education.

d) medical service.

e) armed service

Answer 1

General tax revenues:  a, b, e, and possibly d if we're talking about emergency medical services.  But this isn't my view.  This is the view of the Founding Fathers.  It's all in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers.

Answer 2

a, b, c    state taxes

e,    federal taxes

d,    private insurance or consumer paid.

Answer 3

Personal funds vs. general tax revenues?  Same thing.

Answer 4

What's the difference?

Answer 5

All from tax

Even medical service, if you have insurance you aren't paying for you, you're paying for the whole pool of the insured through that corporation that's making money, let the government make that money instead

Answer 6

Er... general taxation. We all need them. Dont understand why anyone would think they need to be paid from 'personal funds', whatever that may be!

Answer 7

Just the way it is in Britain now: from general taxation, except that I would add universities to the list by abolishing tuition fees, and also abolish charges for dental treatment.

Taxation is only the price of civilisation - what is important, however, is that it should be fair - broadest backs, biggest burdens.