Greater vakolicci haven wrote:Salandriagado wrote:
You don't have to have loyalty to the country. You just have to realise that the country owns things that you want and need, and that paying taxes is the price of access to those things. Similarly, I don't feel any loyalty to Aldi or to my landlord, but I still give both of them far more money than I give the government.
I don't see why you should have to buy into the whole thing though. If I have children they won't be going to state schools so why should I have to fund them? If I am sick I won't be going to an nhs hospital, and if there is some emergency which means I don't have the choice I can afford it...so why should I have to fund the nhs?
Because that's how the country has decided to charge for those services. Similarly, I can't just decide to only rent my flat on Tuesdays and Thursdays: it's all week, or nothing.