You are not required to pay taxes, you are required to pay taxes on your earnings, a key distinction is that if you don’t make money you don’t have to pay. In theory- if you make money, you pay based on the level of benefit you received from the social services, infrastructure, and opportunities provided to you by an organized government. Broken true, in that the people who make the most and benefit the most tend to pay the least on what they make proportionally.
And of course, Pharaoh wouldn’t let the slaves leave Egypt if they didn’t like his rule. You are free to leave as an American if you don’t like the system.
“Why should I have to leave?” Well- you don’t have to. Because unlike the slaves under Pharaoh, you can vote, you can campaign to office, you can influence and change the system.
Unlike the slaves of Egypt, taxes collected are to be used for your benefit, directly or indirectly. That money isn’t always used for the people’s good, that’s where participation comes in.
Sometimes the money isn’t used for what we would want- that’s not misuse, that’s democracy. If you want your vote to matter then other people’s votes have to count too, and when more people vote for something different than you want, you need to respect that as much as you’d think it was bullshit if you got your way in a vote but it was overturned by a smaller vote just because those folks didn’t like the results.
And if you believe you should just be left alone to live as you please whenever democracy doesn’t suit you- you aren’t a “slave,” you’re just a Pharaoh that’s too weak to control their kingdom.
That’s what that is. “My home is my castle” my dude, what slave owns a castle? A kingdom, a home, a city, the size of the territory you’d keep as “yours” to do as you please is just a reflection of your strength to keep control- but that’s literally what a Pharaoh is- a dude who said “this is my land and inside here I make the rules and can live as I please…”
So nope. The mentality that says a man should have the independence to run his little corner of the world he calls life as he pleases free from expectation or obligation does not belong to a person who is a slave under the boot, it belongs to a tyrant who lacks the power to be the ruler that in their heart and mind they want to be.
That man isn’t a slave in that example- he’s the Pharaoh, and even Pharaohs had to tithe to “higher powers.” It’s a bum analogy.
Pay your taxes, vote for lower taxes, or get in office and figure out how to provide the security and prosperity to the people without taking so much tax and do it.
And of course, Pharaoh wouldn’t let the slaves leave Egypt if they didn’t like his rule. You are free to leave as an American if you don’t like the system.
“Why should I have to leave?” Well- you don’t have to. Because unlike the slaves under Pharaoh, you can vote, you can campaign to office, you can influence and change the system.
Unlike the slaves of Egypt, taxes collected are to be used for your benefit, directly or indirectly. That money isn’t always used for the people’s good, that’s where participation comes in.
And if you believe you should just be left alone to live as you please whenever democracy doesn’t suit you- you aren’t a “slave,” you’re just a Pharaoh that’s too weak to control their kingdom.
So nope. The mentality that says a man should have the independence to run his little corner of the world he calls life as he pleases free from expectation or obligation does not belong to a person who is a slave under the boot, it belongs to a tyrant who lacks the power to be the ruler that in their heart and mind they want to be.
That man isn’t a slave in that example- he’s the Pharaoh, and even Pharaohs had to tithe to “higher powers.” It’s a bum analogy.
Pay your taxes, vote for lower taxes, or get in office and figure out how to provide the security and prosperity to the people without taking so much tax and do it.