Libertechie wrote:Liriena wrote:Except there is. Everybody with an income and/or property pays taxes. It's a civic duty, and nobody is exempt from it. Citizens have rights, guarantees and obligations.
Citizens have rights as affirmed by the UN Declaration of Human Rights Act. There are taxes, but we never consented to paying them, and we never got asked if we wanted to receive their services and pay them or opt out. And that's progressive or flat. There is no social contract which we
voluntarily signed, instead we are
coerced into taxes.
So how do you propose the state sustains itself? Magic?
If you don't want to pay taxes, how can you consider yourself entitled to state-funded services, such as legal documentation recognizing certain objects as your property, police, firefighters, armed forces, social services, roads, electricity and water supplies, public transportation, regulations controlling toxic chemicals in products, regulations controlling abusive business practices, courts, the salaries of your lawmakers...? Wouldn't enjoying those benefits without contributing make you a freeloader, living off somebody else's money?