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> Choose not to pay your mortgage. What happens? They take your house. Does that make mortgages theft? No, it doesn't. You opt-in to having a mortgage and agre
by _heimdall 2y ago
> Choose not to pay your mortgage. What happens? They take your house. Does that make mortgages theft? No, it doesn't.
You opt-in to having a mortgage and agree to terms.
I'm not aware of such an option for taxes or citizenship. If you are born in on US soil you are made a citizen, including all the legal rights and benefits as well as the tax liability.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoWell, if I understand correctly, there was the option of becoming an outlaw - literally someone outside the law, which meant that the protection of the law didn't apply to you. Anyone you met was free to kill you. But you didn't have to pay taxes. But if you want the protection of what taxes pay for - the rule of law - then you need to pay the taxes.
- _heimdall 2y agoI think the question would be protection of what laws though. Only an anarchist would argue that governments and taxes, or some other form of funding, shouldn't exist. The debate between anyone else is where the line should be drawn and what the government should have authority to legislate and then enforce.