If you have to defend it yourself why pay taxes? Why not use the money to hire your private army instead?
replyI pay taxes too. I don’t have a policeman stationed outside my home.
replySo you agree "taxpayers should be on the hook for everything"?
replyEvery place SpaceX decides to operate, regardless of what taxpayers want, the taxpayers should foot the entire security bill for their private facilities?
Sounds like socialism.
Everything? No, but governments do have the monopoly on violence. As long as that is true, they bare the primary responsibility of security.
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