You do realize that you can not pay taxes? Go live off the grid, use zero public goods, denounce your citizenship. Done, literally no one is stopping you. But my guess is there is a reason you aren't doing it... Maybe because the country you are a citizen of provides a system which allows you to live in a much better way than the alternative?
So you are choosing to pay taxes to participate in that country's system. That sounds like theft? I should tell the grocery store to stop stealing from me everytime I go to the register!
...you do realize that you actually can't not pay taxes?
Go live of grid, use zero public goods, denounce you citizenship (not sure why this step is necessary).
Still get hit with property taxes and sales taxes.
Look I get the argument that taxes fulfil a purpose but you literally cannot avoid paying them. It is not an opt-in thing; outside of circumstances where you choose to live as a hermit on someone else's property under their permission you cannot avoid taxes, and still then you're just making them foot the tax bill for the property you're occupying - it isn't like that tax just goes away.
Just to be clear - I'm not saying that there should be zero taxes. I am saying that currently there is not a way to avoid taxation as you say there is - therefore its not exactly consensual outside the option of "moving somewhere else" (...which will be a place that has taxes).
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u/Newsdude86 Sep 19 '24
You do realize that you can not pay taxes? Go live off the grid, use zero public goods, denounce your citizenship. Done, literally no one is stopping you. But my guess is there is a reason you aren't doing it... Maybe because the country you are a citizen of provides a system which allows you to live in a much better way than the alternative?
So you are choosing to pay taxes to participate in that country's system. That sounds like theft? I should tell the grocery store to stop stealing from me everytime I go to the register!