>>>>>You do not have a right to keep every penny in any civilized society. You think you do? Name one.
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>>>>>We have been around this block before. I have no problem paying taxes to provide police protection, fire departments, roads, street lighting, etc. I benefit from this stuff, so I will pay for it. What I do have a problem with is having the government take my hard-earned money and give it to the deadbeat in front of me in the line at the grocery store buying T-bone steaks with food stamps and riding home in her BMW.
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>>>>>You do not have a right to any of my money, Mike. Instead of counting other people's money, why don't you go out and earn some of your own? Then you can give as much of it away as you want to. But you do not have the right to give my money away.
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>>>>The government has the right to tax you and waste your money on stupid things like fighting a total useless war.
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>>>I think you're making her arguement. Think about it. No tax means government has no money for waging "useless" war. What a great idea.
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>>Sure, if that is what you want.
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>Lesson being that the less they have of our money, the less "useless" things they'll do.

And less useful things like maintenance on infrastructure, militairy defences, police, firefighters, perhaps even universal healthcare.
People thend to focus on the negatives while a government is there for a good reason. To establish things that cannot be done by the individual.