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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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Taxes are consented to by “we” as a collective, but probably not you or I as individuals. I think the nature of the distress is understandable, but if this is “force” then so is literally every act of government.

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I do think most things government does are in fact force and should not be done

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With all due respect, you seem willfully delusional on this issue. The sort of freedom you wish is simply not possible outside of hunter/gatherer societies or sparsely populated, entirely self contained small communities. Gotta concur w/

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's analysis here.

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Do you know what sort of freedom I wish? Like, could you describe to me how I think the ideal government would work?

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