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> Can you opt out of receiving the government's "services"?

Yes. I don't pay any taxes to the US government, for example, because I don't use any of their services.



I laughed out loud at this.

In no other developed country (in the sense of a competitive GDP, somewhat large and somewhat well educated population) have I seen the same disdain and mistrust for government. Why is it amoral for a government to take taxes if you are - born in a hospital funded by taxes, given vaccines and medication partly funded by taxes, drive to/from home on roads built by taxes, so on and so forth. The people who thing it's unfair they have to pay taxes - what would you prefer? Living in an "AT&T country" where every single service is "privately" owned and you'd be charged fees for it? Sounds like a dream.

Comparatively, in countries such as Sweden and Norway, everyone pays taxes (much moreso than in the good old US of A), and yet the tax agency is rated the most trusted government entity in the government. Strangely enough, this "amorality" also leads to some of the best standards of living and social mobility in the world?


Why is it amoral for a government to take taxes

Is it possible that you're conflating the definitions of immoral and amoral?

born in a hospital funded by taxes

This is an assumption. There are many private hospitals.

given vaccines and medication partly funded by taxes

Vaccines are mandated. It's circular reasoning to say that the costs of someone taking vaccines are justification for taking their money when you forced them to take the vaccine.

drive to/from home on roads built by taxes

We had roads before direct taxation. The fact that we pay for them with tax money doesn't mean that they wouldn't exist without them.

Comparatively, in countries such as Sweden and Norway, everyone pays taxes (much moreso than in the good old US of A), and yet the tax agency is rated the most trusted government entity in the government.

I don't know anything of the political situation in Sweden or Norway. Does their tax collecting branch of government ever get used as a political weapon, the way the IRS does?




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