&gt;Bob shoplift from a store. How does the insurance company stop him from shoplifing from the store again?<p>When did I say an insurance company would stop a shoplifter? Whether or not Walmart will physically confront a shoplifter or not (I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;ve seen cases in the news where they have), that&#x27;s their business, but as far as I know there&#x27;s nothing from precluding them from doing so.<p>&gt;But private 3rd party citizens do NOT have the ability to use force on others.<p>Sure they do. I assume you&#x27;re talking about laws here. I can&#x27;t speak for the laws of every state, but most allow the the use of force in self defense or even to prevent theft.<p>Regardless of the laws of any given jurisdiction, is your argument that there is a market failure because the law prevents a business from taking action?<p>&gt;I&#x27;m saying that the County is using taxes to pay for the Dump (and similarly, raising a &quot;bag tax&quot; to discourage the use of plastic bags is a good thing). And according to you anarcho-capitalists, you guys typically consider the forceful removal of money from the private citizenry to be immoral.<p>&gt;I&#x27;m defending the use of taxes to solve this market failure. Because taxes are NOT a function of a free-market economy. You should know the basics of your own argument dude<p>You keep referring to an alleged market failure but you have failed to identify one. In your example the dump is a public institution, thereby excluding the possibility of a market failure.