No, it’s not. A review of the work is though.
Thanks for the link.
I’m sure you’re aware of this, but Ayn Rand never advocated anarchy. Everyone in Galt’s gulch got some societal benefit from living there-- otherwise they woudn’t have bothered. But I think we’re straying off topic here…
BD: *I could be an anarchist if it were not for the fact that those anarchists I have met expected to derive the benefits of society without repaying the debt. *
Then I don’t think you’re a libertarian; as I understand it, libertarians hold that the “benefits of society” can be entirely or very largely sustained by unregulated, voluntary market interactions. So nobody owes any kind of “debt” to anyone else in society for the “benefits” that they enjoy.
I personally think this is pretty much horseshit, and I agree with you that on the contrary, society is as dependent on universal and intrinsic shared obligations as it is on universal and intrinsic individual rights. But all that means is that I’m not a libertarian either.
How could she. The threat of force is required to maintain property. Short of some kind of tribalism, she’d need a government to impose that will. She’s always been a big fan of government. I’m unsure how she felt it would be supported, I haven’t read any of her stuff in like two years, but I seem to remember voluntary payments. I can’t imagine she’d support out and out taxation. A government that uses force for conflict resolution, and yet lives off charity? Heh, no, that isn’t opening itself up for abuse at all…
The proposal was not meant as a detailed economic suggestion. She wrote (I can’t find which essay, I’ll look it up in the morning) that the government could collect a fee for enforcing contracts. Kind of like the stamp act, except voluntary. The idea is that a small fee (some percentage of the transaction) would be paid to the government voluntarily by the signatories of the contract. For purposes of this idea, credit card transactions are contracts. If the signatories do not want to pay the tax, then the contract is not enforceable in court. She made the point that enforcing contracts without collecting such a fee is tantamount to corporate welfare. Which she detested at least as much as the other kind. 
It is not really that different from the VAT tax we were discussing in another thread. The essential difference is the voluntary nature of it.
It is not charity, however, erislover.
Ayn Rand wrote an essay titled “Government Financing in a Free Society” Which was published (eventually) in the book The Virtue of Selfishness Thanks for providing an excuse to break out that library BTW.