Nice double-post.

If corporations didn't receive government money they wouldn't have enough money to be defense agencies. Basically, we'd have many really small and uncohesive militaries. This might work if everyone in the world did it, but that would never happen. If we did it, a large, organized/united, national military would move in and crush us. Ever heard the saying "United we stand, divided we fall"? It;s applicable in more situations than you think. We can compare this to nuclear deterrance. Countries refrain from nuking us because they know we have nukes (and a lot of them) as well and would fire back. Countries refrain from invading us because we have the second largest and probably the most powerful military in the world. If we did not have nukes, we would probably be nuked. If we didn't have a powerful army, we'd be crushed. Either way we'd be screwed unless every country got rid of their army or nukes, which will never happen.

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