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Then you are a tax consumer, living off the productive output of others. Your agents within the state apparatus extract income from the rest of society by force
by clarkmoody 10y ago
Then you are a tax consumer, living off the productive output of others. Your agents within the state apparatus extract income from the rest of society by force and give it to you. Aristocracy, indeed.
(This assumes that the government has crowded out private charity, which is the case in most developed countries.)