> I've no problem paying taxes, they buy me civilization. This argument is vacuous because taxes aren't about what you pay, they're about what you can make oth

> I've no problem paying taxes, they buy me civilization. This argument is vacuous because taxes aren't about what you pay, they're about what you can make others pay. You are always free to pay whatever you want out of your own funds for the things you think of as "civilization". That isn't a tax, because it's voluntary. The only reason to support a tax is that there are things that you want (your so-called "civilization") which you want other people to pay for, whether they want these things or not.