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Well, if you favor watching your neighbors rot instead of contributing to raise them up, if you consider taxes paid for social welfare to be theft, you don't ha

• jl2718 5y ago
  You know, the taxes they force you to pay are only a minimum requirement. Government is like any other service or charity out there. You don’t have to vote to force other people to buy the product; you can purchase as much as you want yourself! But actually you are wrong about that. I paid California taxes for several years spent overseas. The only tie I had was a bank account. Side note: there are some other jurisdictions around the world that have some innovative public funding models based on payer choice with minimum contribution set by vote. This is sort of like the Marilyn Vos Savant “you cut I choose” model, and it seems to me that such a market model would vastly outcompete the command contribution model for delivering social benefit.