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Board Politics & Society
Re: Is taxation theft?
by
MattScott
on 09/05/2017, 18:56:59 UTC
Taxation is not theft or an act of thieving. Taxation is our share that we must give back to society that transforms into  government welfare services and others.

Your statement might have been true a few decades back. But now, most of the tax revenue is being spent on the defense budget, and for giving salaries to the governmental staff.
I'm not against defense spending. The security of the country is an important task for the government and society, but I am opposed to my taxes paying high salaries to officials and for the maintenance of their apparatus.

Officials receive a large salary and still use money from paying taxes for their own purposes. I do not like such a payment of taxes.
What can we change? If you do not pay the taxes we do to the poor their state if you pay the officials embezzle the budget. Change of officials is impossible because others come and steal exactly the same as the previous one.