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Communist manifesto of every single country in the world?

Look man, I understand you're upset about taxes. I don't know if you were raised by somebody who hated taxes or if you had tax problems, but you need to take a step outside your emotional bubble and consider my actual arguments.

If you can't address my points without logical fallacies maybe you should consider that you could be wrong.

  1. You do business with a government currency. Yes, the construction of that currency was fulfilled by a private organization but it's done with a government mandate.

  2. You do business on the governments territory. Yes, you can "own" that territory, but it was claimed by the government and when you bought it you got that under the conditions that the government set. Taxes are public knowledge.

The government guarantees the currency. Yes, it's possible to have all these services and currency guarantees without government, but you are still making use of them and that comes with that implied social contract. What the government takes is a percentage of that currency, and giving that cut is something that society has agreed to.

No, society is not necessarily the same as the government, but the government's territory is society's territory, and the goverment's rules are society's rules. Society has agreed to currency in exchange for services which is managed by government.

And if you don't like that? You CAN leave. It's not easy, most of the world will make you get a passport. That's something else the government is doing for you. the government convinces other countries to allow you on their territory if you've agreed to that social contract.

You are entitled. You are entitled to the government's territory, the government's currency guarantee, and the government's services/protection/legal system. But you are obligated in return to pay taxes while you're using any of those.

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