> In what universe is this even remotely ethical OR rational? I have to pay taxes for the maintenance of the road network. I don't own a car. I have to pay ta

> In what universe is this even remotely ethical OR rational? I have to pay taxes for the maintenance of the road network. I don't own a car. I have to pay taxes to bail out corrupt bankers, to rescue the economy they crashed. I have no mortgage. I have to pay taxes to subsidize farmers. I am not a farmer. I have to pay taxes for expensive cancer treatments. I don't have cancer. You seem to be arguing that there should be no public provision of anything, that should be private companies, and taxes should be abolished. That's some kind of insane Ayn Rand-style philosophy. It's obvious to me that any kind of public expenditure paid for from taxes is going to annoy someone; and some of the expenditure is either going to benefit me, or will be expenditure that I approve of. You win some, you lose some.