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Of all the demonized words, taxes is the most ancient and universally loathed. So much in the past was a result of the rich and the powerful robbing and controlling their fiefdoms that the other side, the strengthening of infrastructure and social pooling of resources, never made the concept palatable.
Yet taxation is just another means of paying for services, ptentially the fairest and most economical of a society providing for all its members and gaining things impossible for the individual to have no matter how wealthy or privileged they might be.
Businesses thus "tax" their customers. They too have a maze and smoke and mirrors system to multiply how they pay without ever paying themselves for other goods and services(some maintained by the ttaxes of their "customers"). Oh right, it's all about choice. I forgot. Well, try to buy health care without insurance, or insurance without a group provider, or compare that to countries with national health care programs funded by "taxes". One way or another you are "taxed" and you must pay. As an individual buyer you have little power. As a taxpayer you can vote(possibly) and insure the justice and workability of the common good.
Or you can abolish government on your behalf(which strangely does not disappear but turns into yet another pocketpicking arm of business). Because we can trust the greediest, most ruthless SOB's on the planet to take care of us, can't we? That's what we pay "taxes" to them for isn't it? Aren't we always told high and low thius is the "best" system?
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