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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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Think of it as paying for the infrastructure and society that allowed you to make that money. It may hurt, but it's a fair trade IMO.

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I'm okay with fair trades, I'm not okay with nonconsensual trades. My issue here is that it is *my* property taken *by force*, and people are trying to tell me "cheer up, it's a fair trade." I don't care if it's fair, it's still a violation.

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There are millions of people in your country, and billions in the world. It would be real swell if we had a political system that couldn't make any of them do anything until each and every one of them explicitly agreed to it, but that isn't something that's currently workable.

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Right, not absolutely, but there's still a *lot* of progress we could make in that direction, and most people don't even seem to care about that direction *at all*.

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Well, contributing to the maintenance of the society whose infrastructure we all depend on is pretty low on the priority list of things a reasonable person would want to give literally everyone the option to opt out of.