> If you would like to make that exchange in person, using a currency of your choosing, then I don't see a problem with your argument. > However if you want to

> If you would like to make that exchange in person, using a currency of your choosing, then I don't see a problem with your argument. > However if you want to use the Internet, which was subsidized by and developed using research by U.S. and E.U. governments then my counter argument would be that you need to pay the toll of the IRS or whatever other government you reside within. For this matter, how will you travel to meet the other person? Will you take a taxpayer-funded road? Will you take a plane monitored by taxpayer-funded air traffic controllers? And how do you know the other person won't just shoot you and take your currency? Maybe it's because they're worried that the taxpayer-funded police and public prosecutors will go after them if they do that.