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I worked with a guy once who moved from country to country paying zero tax and he was bragging to me about this. He also had a wife and child with him. So I jus

• logfromblammo 9y ago
  I don't know about you, but my water and sanitation are billed to me directly by the non-government companies that provide them, and my employer pays a fraction of my health care burden to an insurance company instead of me, for tax-avoidance purposes. Every education system I have ever seen is funded by property taxes, which are paid by owners or renters via monthly checks to the owners, without regard to citizenship or domicile. The rule of law is increasingly paid for by selective enforcement of offenses with revenue-positive fine structures. I'm not sure what exactly it is my income taxes pay for, but about anything I might want from a government is already paid for by direct billing or by some other type of tax. Maybe I'm paying for a seat cover of an F-35. Maybe I'm paying for a bridge repair that has been overdue for 30 years. I lack the attention span to follow the money that far. That guy still pays sales taxes, and any taxes that may be indirectly passed on to him through business dealings. It isn't zero; it's just less than you, at the price of being a technically domicile-less nomad. The lifestyle is a bit more stressful, as you have to schedule mandatory events around several sets of local laws.