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I have always thought it was weird when people get possessive about their tax money. As in, that's my money you're spending! It isn't yours, because however ma

I have always thought it was weird when people get possessive about their tax money. As in, that's my money you're spending! It isn't yours, because however mandatory it was you paid it to them, and when you give it it ceases to be yours. At any rate even the richest among us are making comparatively miniscule contributions in the scheme of things. There are plenty of things the government does that I like, and I would sure like to pay for those ahead of say, funding for wars I don't like or finding new and indirect ways of killing people (by this I mean military spending), but I pay my taxes with the understanding that this is all part of the deal.

enraged_camel 7y ago
>>It isn't yours, because however mandatory it was you paid it to them, and when you give it it ceases to be yours. It's more than that. Tax money was never yours to begin with. You owed it to the government by default. The government just allowed it to touch your bank account temporarily before collecting it.
- vonzeppelin 7y ago
  No. If you live in a democracy then the tax money is yours. You are the government. You have every right to complain about what they are doing with your money.
  - asveikau 7y ago
    And this complaint is called an "election". Seems to me like getting super possessive about what the elected people do without a proposed solution (elect somebody else, run for office, etc.) is nonproductive and fails to grasp some essential point about the whole thing.
    - iamnothere 7y ago
      Seems to me like complaining about some types of spending would be a good way to garner support and win an election, if enough people agree with you. But maybe that's just me.
  - JamesBarney 7y ago
    I don't think anyone is arguing you don't have the right to complain about where tax dollars go. They're arguing against the idea that taxation is theft, and the government doesn't have the right to collect it.
  - patrickthebold 7y ago
    Isn't 'they' 'you' then?
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enraged_camel 7y ago

>>It isn't yours, because however mandatory it was you paid it to them, and when you give it it ceases to be yours. It's more than that. Tax money was never yours to begin with. You owed it to the government by default. The government just allowed it to touch your bank account temporarily before collecting it.

vonzeppelin 7y ago
No. If you live in a democracy then the tax money is yours. You are the government. You have every right to complain about what they are doing with your money.
- asveikau 7y ago
  And this complaint is called an "election". Seems to me like getting super possessive about what the elected people do without a proposed solution (elect somebody else, run for office, etc.) is nonproductive and fails to grasp some essential point about the whole thing.
  - iamnothere 7y ago
    Seems to me like complaining about some types of spending would be a good way to garner support and win an election, if enough people agree with you. But maybe that's just me.
- JamesBarney 7y ago
  I don't think anyone is arguing you don't have the right to complain about where tax dollars go. They're arguing against the idea that taxation is theft, and the government doesn't have the right to collect it.
- patrickthebold 7y ago
  Isn't 'they' 'you' then?
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