ext_97971 ([identity profile] enders-shadow.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2010-04-20 05:44 am (UTC)

OK; lemme see if I can help you here:

A group of gangsters with guns robbing me is different than taxation because I didn't elect the gangsters.

You're actions determine your taxes.
You work, presumably, on a street. That's on a road. That gets mail. And heat. And electricity. And that is protected by police and military. That sells things for (and pays you in) special pieces of paper imbued with value
If you grew up here, you were given the option of free education for many years.
You paying taxes is very different from being robbed by a group of gangsters.
Gangsters did not get elected--by the people, for the people, to govern the people.

Do you see a difference now?

Your faulty reasoning comes from ignoring the give in the give-and-take of taxation, and equating it to the strictly take of gangsters w/ guns.

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