Btw I stumbled upon a Bible verse that says you should pay your taxes ;)
Romans 13:7:
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
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Yes, very interesting and very subtle language.
The question nobody seems willing to ask is, "what is owed."
Suppose I say, "Dave, you owe me a million dollars." Does that make it so?
I think the important thing is that the existence of this verse implies that there is indeed someone that taxes are owed to.
Taxes are owed because they are enforcible, otherwise they are just as declaratory as your statement here, just the determination of the value owed is more complicated ;)
As far as taxes go, I think some of them are OK. I wouldn't mind paying for my fair or even in essence socialist share of infrastructure, security, government, healthcare and education, my biggest personal problem with taxes, especially in the country I live in, is how much of it is misused and fueling corruption instead of those common goods and services above that they are supposed to support.