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"Voting with [your] dollars" refers to the idea that spending money is equivalent to voting for the product or service one is purchasing or the business from which one is purchasing it.

[[Anarcho-capitalist]]s often raise this point in support of [[free market]]s as an alternative to [[government]] because free markets which will arise in the absence of government regulation provide a mechanism similar to voting and therefore democratic government is unnecessary.
==Assumptions==
This argument makes the following assumptions:
* '''Free markets will arise in the absence of government.''' Unfortunately, [[free markets require government]].
* '''In the absence of government, society will be more meritocratic.'''
==Notes==
It should also be noted that "voting with dollars" is essentially what wealthy campaign donors do when they use their money to control government via campaign finance -- which most people consider to be a form of corruption. Nonetheless, some people find this acceptable, while anarchists tend to blame this problem on the existence of government power -- ignoring the fact that political power does not originate with government, but with [[political power comes from technology|technology]].
==Links==
===Reference===
* {{wikipedia|dollar voting}}

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