> I've no problem paying taxes, they buy me civilization. They do, but this line of argumentation is kind of vacuous if you don't include the actual cost of ta

> I've no problem paying taxes, they buy me civilization. They do, but this line of argumentation is kind of vacuous if you don't include the actual cost of taxes. If taxes could be 1/3 of what everyone is paying, thus buying the same civilization except much more prosperous since money is used a lot more productively and people have much more choice about where it goes, isn't that better? (This 1/3 isn't meant to be a real number; it's a thought experiment). Alternative way of looking at it -- if this argument works without cost, then why shouldn't everyone just pay 100% taxes?