You are basically saying paying taxes should be voluntary. Do you really, honestly think that is actually going to work? This is basically why the first iterat

You are basically saying paying taxes should be voluntary. Do you really, honestly think that is actually going to work? This is basically why the first iteration of the United States fell apart: the Articles of Confederation basically made taxes voluntary, and they only had to convince 13 states to pay them! Spoiler alert, they couldn't do it, and the first US government collapsed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Taxation_and_commerce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#Taxa...