"If you don't like it, move to a different country; you implicitly consent by staying here" is an argument I hear a lot from people when I complain about taxes, but is mysteriously absent when I complain about things like the drug war or bad policing
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I'm just saying it's different. You're choosing to stay here and directly benefit from the things the taxes pay for. So that's the deal - you benefit from US infrastructure and society, and in return you have to pay taxes. That's the deal. The drug war isn't the same.
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If you were directly benefitting from the drug war infrastructure and the complaining about the cost of the drug war, then I guess the argument would be similar. But the analogy doesn't really fit very well, because gain they're not the same.
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