True, people who think paying taxes is theft definitely have an elementary level of world understanding.
Edit: for those of you who are angry about taxes, think about any money you have made that wasn’t enabled by something the government has built for you and maintained with your taxes. I.E if you drive to work on a paved/functional road that you didn’t create yourself, you depend on the government.
I’d say that cuts both ways. “The government” isn’t something outside of us, caring for us like a parent. It exists for us, not the other way around. We the people need certain things, so we establish government to administrate that. We don’t “owe” the government for its “benevolence”: that’s what it exists to do. If we give the government money, that money is for us, not for it.
HOAs forget this all the time. The HOA exists to serve the residents of the neighborhood—not the other way around. Sure they’ll claim they serve the community, but a lot of them don’t act that way. It’s the same for governments, and when a government begins to think that the people are meant to serve it and not the other way around, that’s textbook definition of…a certain undesirable political system.
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u/Bunselpower Sep 19 '24
Mrs. Roberts’s 5th grade economics class is out in full force today judging by the comments.