>> Like Tamar I look at taxation as buying my ticket to live in a civilized country
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>>A ticket...where the govt has all the authority to set the cost.
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>>The quote about taxes being a "price" is the crudest economic interpretation possible. In economic terms, "price" is part of an organic process tied to "value" - well, when you look at how govts spend money these days, the concept of value goes out the window.
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>Simple truths are often best explained in simple terms.
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>I know you don't like tax (or theft as you seem to think it) why don't you get enough fellow travellers together and all move to one area and try a zero tax zero govt lifestyle. It'd be interesting to see how it goes. Either Paradise or Lord of the Flies.

I've never said "zero tax". That's not at all practical.

(I oppose the IRS and I hope they abolish it). I believe in something along these lines:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FAQs