Re:Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (2015)
by ada1981 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:10PM
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Sounds like Flint.
My general point is that there is nothing immoral about not paying taxes, it’s simply a cost / benefit if you’d like to avoid state violence in your direction.
However I think this isn’t a palatable truth and so people would rather justify their paying of taxes to make it easier.
There are many, many places on Earth with so non-functional as to be non-existent governments, and zero taxation.
You just most likely will choose not to live in those places, because in many places you are subject to violence (as metered by law enforcement, made possible by taxation), have barely functioning infrastructure, electricity, fresh water, roads, Internet.
So what you'd really like is to have a don't tread on me style homestead with all the mod cons, and none of the drawbacks.
> Do you like spending half your tax dollars on military operations? Including buying bullets that go to kill innocent kids in regions that have resources deemed valueable to US capital?
That's a very black and white world view. I can appreciate the value of taxation and the benefits brought by it while still disliking/despising things like our military industrial complex and unnecessary "military actions". It's absurdly simplistic to (attempt to) reduce it to these two alternatives.