Um, what laws would this allow you to opt out of besides drugs and prostitution? You’d still be subject to environmental regulations, the tort system, securities filings, etc. and bear the externality induced costs of those regulatory burdens. Or do you opt out of social security too? Because if you’re paying even more taxes, aren’t you LESS able to invest for your own retirement?

I think the only reform that’s really necessary is to disenfranchise anyone whose government payments (whether social security or welfare) exceeds their taxes paid. Because then government becomes a service which is purchased, not a sugar daddy.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? The ones who sign their checks, that’s who.

Something still needs to be done though about the perfectly wealthy and well-informed who lobby for laws that create great wealth for themselves and their cronies, regardless of the cost to the rest of the citizenry. Our culture has become desensitized to government as a source of competitive advantage (whether in direct payments or regulatory advantage) and it is the failing of our age.

We also seriously need a better way of selecting legislators.