>Tax evasion makes everyone except the government richer Oh, really? The alternative to modern taxation is not no taxation, but rather massive taxation where i

>Tax evasion makes everyone except the government richer Oh, really? The alternative to modern taxation is not no taxation, but rather massive taxation where it's hard to evade (for example customs) of the kind we had in the middle ages. While we can come up with arguments for and against this, there is a strong positive correlation between tax evasion and poverty, which means that the burden of proof lies on you. >So corruption also makes us richer So, would you say that the music industry's lobbying in Washington makes the US richer? Corruption is the mechanism by which established players stack the deck against newcomers, avoid environmental and health regulation and so on and so forth. Listen, governments make the world go round. Countries with bad governments become poor. Countries with good governments become rich.