If regulation is for the benefit of the state and the public - IE all
citizens and residents - then it should be paid for out of general
taxation.
Those receiving a benefit should pay for it, rather than a ransom
being exacted from those wishing to do a particular thing.
This is the cheapest way of raising funds, and it exerts a suitable
influence on those spending them from those disbursing them - that
everything which should be done should be done, but there should not
be growth for growth's sake.
The current situation in too many areas of life is that the State has
given the right to taxation to organisations which then have the
opposite of an incentive to be efficient and small.
In the good times we may have been able to afford it, although the
effects on quality of life then were perceptible, but in these bad
times we cannot afford it.
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Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
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