Liberty
Libertarian Minded
Your three non-answers are utter and total horseshit. Taxes are the admission we pay to live in a society. There are expenses in a society, many of which are crucial to private commerce, like roads and bridges. How the fuck do you propose we pay for the building and maintenance of roads used by all citizens if not by taxes? Privately built toll roads? What about the nationwide power grid? Do you think that wss built by the private sector? Hell, no. The privately owned power companies declined to run power anywhere but cities and towns because it wasn't cost effective. My father was born on a farm that had no electricity and never would if the private sector had its way. I live in a cabin in the woods, and I have electric power through no effort on the part of the private sector, but because of FDR's Rural Electrification Program, another one of his hated socialist post-depression programs that did nothing positive except create jobs, put people to work and expand our national power infrastructure o every corner of the country, something the privately-owned utility monopolies were unwilling to do. How did we pay for that? Through taxes. Every fucking functioning country in the world taxes its citizens for common expenses, except the new robber barons in the OPEC countries. It doesn't matter what kinds of governments or economies nations have, they all tax (except OPEC), and unless you want to live in one of those autocracies, you're going to pay taxes, and most are higher than ours. Individuals can't build roads, for the most part. Governments do, and they do it with tax revenues. Get a grip.
2. One single page web site? Written by a high school teacher? No citations from Marx's works? And you think that's going to "educate" me? I am educated. I've read Marx. Have you? Or is that lame website the sum total of your exposure to Marx?
3. You won't what? Live in a civilized nation? Afghanistan and Somalia don't have taxes. They are also failed states. Good luck with that fantasy..
Grow a clue.
It's not a civilized nation if I'm forced to comply with your logic Mr. Smart Guy!
A civilized nation doesn't come from a gun to my head.
Your points fall short from addressing the subject we're talking about.
The roads, bridges, etc, have nothing to do with what is Marxism.