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It seems one of the disadvantages of not paying for something…


So, you're not paying taxes?


I don't pay taxes the way I pay for a cell phone carrier. The taxes have to get paid no matter what -- I can't withhold payment or switch to a different carrier because I'm getting bad service. I could, as a privileged American, uproot my whole life and move elsewhere, but I'd still owe taxes for the time I had awful service, and depending on the circumstances might still end up owing at least some taxes until I renounced citizenship.

Like them or not, want them or not: taxes are not voluntary payments, and we can't apply the same logic to them.


Police don't take orders from taxpayers, either. Maybe the victims of bureaucracy aren't its true customers.




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