Taxes are theft. Period.
This needs to be said more often. I grew up in a culture where good people pay (surrender) taxes and bad people avoid them. I'm learning that it's not that straight-forward. Taxation is a symbolic gesture, the government is so much in debt, our little drippings don't make an actual difference. But... we are told to "do your part" and "pay your fair share". As if the authorities of this world really have our best interests in mind.
They build roads with those taxes (do they though?)
Quick story: there was a particular road in our neighborhood was awful, potholes large enough to loose a car. Someone petitioned the municipality to repave the roads. Next thing you know, there's a contract to repave (yay!), the roads are fixed (yay!) and every house with improved road in front of it has to pay several hundred dollars a month for years (BOOOO!!!!) with no option to opt out. The myth of "taxes pay for roads" is bunk.
there's a hole in the road, the people fix it. Not the government.
This is how it should be. Those hundreds of $$'s that all the homeowners pay could have gone to a private contractor and they could have repaved the entire neighborhood for much less.
Just imagine how it would be if people would take their power back and sort everything amongst themselves.
It's going to be intense, especially around here, one in every few dozen cars driving around look like this:
