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Then give me exact amount I owe ? Why does it have anything to do with my Income ? Do you pay 5% for your iPhone ? Why is police protection any different ? Why

Then give me exact amount I owe ? Why does it have anything to do with my Income ? Do you pay 5% for your iPhone ? Why is police protection any different ? Why am I not allowed to opt-out of it ? Admit it. Its socially-excepted extortion from successful where people always increasing welfare spending. I dont know why anyone have to demonize anyone. People are looking after their own self-interest. And successful after their own by evading taxes.

enraged_camel 10y ago
You can't pay an exact amount because we literally have no way to calculate such an amount. How do you calculate usage for police, fire, military protection? How do you calculate the monetary value of being surrounded by educated people (which is what part of your taxes pay for)? You can't. We do have usage-based taxes for things where we can calculate the usage relatively easily, such as tolls for roads. A lot of other things however have to come from your income, because that's the easiest method that, believe it or not, requires the least bureaucracy. P.S. You can't opt out of police protection because... how would that work exactly?