mcg wrote:
Your analogy is terrible. Housing tenants voluntarily sign contracts obliging them to pay money in exchange for shelter. I signed no such contract obliging me to pay the government. If you don't pay what they say, they come to your house with guns and arrest you. The only distinction between taxes and robbery is that taxes are collected by the government.
Cry me a river. The very act of keeping records that your land property belongs to you requires government expenses and that's just the beginning. If you own a house, government provides to you many implicit services. You would be stealing from society if you didn't pay taxes.
You can opt out of the services, but then good luck ensuring that a mob does not just outpower you and decide they live in your place because you would have no record that you own that stuff. And good luck also getting the government to build pipelines to connect your house to the water system. Etc, etc, etc.
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