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Have you payed for building the roads you drive or walk on to work? The pipes that deliver your water? The fire services? Do you imagine you pay the full cost of the food you are eating? Of the irrigation systems? Garbage pick up and disposal? Management of your local community, including things like accounting for its money etc?

Calling taxation "theft" is delusional.

All those things existed before confiscatory taxes were imposed on basically all forms of economic activity. None have improved while the government has stolen 50%+ of my income. In fact they have universally gotten worse, and still more expensive.

This is just "basic infrastructure as a service", except the only service you're actually getting for your payment is not going to jail. That's called extortion.

> All those things existed before confiscatory taxes were imposed on basically all forms of economic activity.

When exactly in history do you imagine these services existed, but there were no taxes? Do you somehow imagine Kings weren't collecting taxes (the original reason for the American Revolution)?

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