I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one. Sure, you could argue that this forcible theft is worth it, and I'll respect that, but it's still not crazy to be upset.
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Fair. It feels like a core intuition behind this argument is something like "if you want to live in a cabin in the woods with no reliance on other people, you should thereby be freed of obligations to said people"? (Although I'm not sure which taxes apply in that scenario.)
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There's a lens in which the government *does* "work for your money" in some sense by funding necessary infrastructure, but I don't think this is a very strong counterpoint because taxes don't operate as a function of how much you use that infrastructure (see: cabin in the woods)
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They sort of do work for your money. My experience in talking with ordinary people is that most believe govt. provides enough important service, (largely by preventing much worse things), and small enough harm, that it is "worth it".
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My answer to that is that libertarians and like-minded voluntaryists must find a way to *replace* these govt. services with durable alternatives. If we just try to rip the services away, we're alienating most people.
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