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Abused because if you earn more you're required by society to contribute more? Seriously?

Get a grip. We all benefit from the collective services, and we give in proportion to our ability to do so. If all were asked to pay the same price then the poorest would have nothing left for food.



"We" do not "give" for "services". There is a privileged group of people who are entitled to not paying taxes at all, but instead extracting them with violent force (and servicing a huge paperwork that hides that violence.)

Policemen do not pay taxes from their salary (even if formally they do). They are net tax receivers. And they also get to hold a gun to your head when you do not give them money, or refuse to pay it from your employee's payroll, or something else (as I said, the paperwork is huge and complex to hide where exactly the gun is being pointed).

When you are being robbed and then given some bribe to make an illusion of a good done to you, it's not a "service", it's a bullshit of a catholic caliber.

As I mentioned many times again on HN, pro-government or pro-law rhetoric is no different from religious bullshit that one group of people uses on another group of people at the expense of someone else.

Compare:

"Without religion and church there's no morality" => "without government we'll have anarchic chaos"

"You must trust pope because he's set here by God" => "You must trust mr. president because there is society that elected him"

"If god does not exist, who created everything?" => "Without government how would we build roads and fly to the moon?"

"The Bible says what's good and what's bad" => "The constitution defines our rights."

"If you are against religion, you are against morality" => "If you are against government, you are against society".


You're soooo cute when you're upset about the government.

The government is us. It's not an external parasite. The majority of us want it and see use in it. Sucks to be you I guess.




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