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Taxes are theft... Nobody pays them voluntarily, and if you don't, well you go to jail.

• tkanarsky 4y ago
  Think of taxes as your SaaS (society as a service) bill. Don't want to pay the costs? Then don't reap the benefits.
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  • vdqtp3 4y ago
    > Don't want to pay the costs? Then don't reap the benefits. That's literally not an option.
    • exabrial 4y ago
      For two reasons: * the vast majority of your seized money is transferred to the 1% * if it it weren’t, you can’t opt out anyway
    • ryan93 4y ago
      It is just don’t purchase property use roads or make an income. You think the homeless pay anything other than sales tax?
• gamblor956 4y ago
  I pay my taxes voluntarily. I can walk around outside and see the officers patrolling the streets because my tax dollars paid for them to be there, and the thousands of cars driving on those streets daily because my tax dollars paid for the maintenance on those roads. I can look up in the sky and see blue, and I can see the mountains dozens (or in some cases, hundreds) of miles away, because local air quality agencies have been cracking down on polluters. I can swim in the ocean because multiple agencies have been regulating polluters, and cleaning the water, so that it is safe for human activity. I can visit 3 national parks and dozens of state parks within a 4 hour drive, all paid for by my tax dollars. And, oddly enough, in all my years as a tax professional, I've only seen one person go to jail for not paying taxes: Wesley Snipes. Everyone else just pays the penalties and fines and moves on with their lives.
  • mensetmanusman 4y ago
    Interestingly, TSMC spends about the same amount on their yearly equipment upgrades as the federal government on all roads in the U.S. Really puts things in perspective…