Massie dismissed the warnings as alarmist. (“We’re not anarchists,” he said.) Government needs to shrink, he argued, and he assumes the Legislature will find alternatives. A fairer system, he argued, would make people pay for the government services they use, but not those they don’t.

Ugh, I just cannot understand how people think this way. How on earth can you expect government services to be there when you need them if they're not funded when you don't need them? It's almost a corollary to the terrible "don't tax millionaires because one day I might be a millionaire" argument.