I think you're getting hung up on "tax day should be happy because we're showing solidarity with our fellow citizens". If you have any resources to link to me a

I think you're getting hung up on "tax day should be happy because we're showing solidarity with our fellow citizens". If you have any resources to link to me about Switzerland's politics/economic history please cough it up. I'm interested. Democracy isn't a clearly defined concept, there are competing theories. Namely the madisonian and the jeffersonian, more recently the battle between deweyite and the Walter Lippmann variety. I mean aristotle was basically right, he saw the solution was a social democracy and a welfare state