Public Goods Roads, Schools & Free Riders

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The four-quadrant matrix gets completed and both fixes get priced, national defense at about $850 billion a year and public schools at about $800 billion, both funded through compulsory taxes instead of the voluntary payments that collapse under free riders.

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