Dick,
My mind is made up for a number of reasons:
I watch the radar everyday, I see transponder errors everyday from VFR's. What protection is this to the IFR driver with TCAS, let alone the poor IFR bastard that doesn't have TCAS? (I was flying IFR about a month back and got traffic on a VFR at the same level as myself, I was in 8/8ths! What the fcuk was it doing there?)
Surveilance can be provided to the ground where class E is with ADS-B. There is just a lack of political will to do it because it costs money. And we can't have that can we??
No radar or surveilance equals procedural approach equals more delays equals more controllers equals costs more money (see previous paragraph)