Why not? If it's that bad, move. If you live in a dictatorship then maybe you have a point... but then a lot more than your money is being taken from you. Although you can quibble with the ease of moving you cannot quibble with the fact that you get something for paying taxes.
The better analogy is shopping at a store that you hate. If you don't like what you get for your money then go to a different store.
This isn't as simple as that. If a member of the mafia came to your house and held a gun to you saying "Three choices, pay for these services, leave, or get shot" the fact that you really will get services that you paid for doesn't mean that the mafioso didn't steal from you when he took your money.
I'll admit that its not as simple as that either. We do vote for the guys who take tax money from us (Although "Nobody" isn't an option
) and give us services in return. Granted, our choices are limited, but we do get a "Choice" and some of those services can, no way no how, ever be provided by ourselves for ourselves, yet we need them (National defense is the basically undebatable example). So its more like a small group of mafia members, each with different visions of how much money he'll take at gunpoint and what he'll do with it to help us. Still, the plans are probably unfair to somebody. One mafia member wants to go fight a rival town and use our money to pay soldiers to do so, rather than to help us out. Another doesn't want to use our money to fight wars, but he wants to take a very high percentage of our income from the very rich to give the very poor a better life. The third, on the other hand, wants to actually PROTECT the rich, let them manipulate their way out of their extortion payments, and let the poor bear the brunt of the extortion payments.
Honestly, it feels like this sometimes. We do get some choice, but all of the choices suck, and SOMEBODY is getting robbed because they don't get what they paid for. I do not have a solution to totally end the extortion. Some think anarchy would be better, I have to say I'm not willing to accept the results that anarchy would result in. I do have respect for some of its proponents on these forums, I really do, but I just don't accept it. I think that if we only gave national defense and diplomacy to the Feds, a few things to the states, and most laws and regulations to the local counties, we could have a society in which, yes, "Theft" (In quotes because its very debatable) will occur but each community will get what IT pays for and IT wants. So yes, some people will still be upset, but then, moving to a different community is easier than moving to a different state or let alone country.
You enjoy not being conquered by a foreign power. The police protect you and your property. You have the ability to own property and broad rights about what you do with it. You were educated, you received many, many benefits, too many to enumerate. You already took all these things. And now you're complain because you got a bill for them.
It isn't the taxers that are the thieves.
True, which is why its iffy (And I voted other) as opposed to simply being theft. The more the government does, the more comparable to theft it is. National defense is pretty much undeniably essential. These things you describe are true, but then again, we really don't get a choice. Can you force bills on other people? Then again, what if you HAVE to for society to work? That's really what this is all about. The more local things are done, the better because then people do get more of a choice in how their money is used.
How to transition from the position we're in I have no idea, but we darn well better begin
