Quote from: AlgoSwan on May 12, 2020, 12:39:51 PM

We have to stop looking at taxes as a mighty system for achieving social goals, which merely needs to be made “fair” and rational in order to usher in Utopia. We have to start looking at taxation as a vast system of robbery and oppression, by which some people are enabled to live coercively and parasitically at the expense of others. We must realize that from the point of view of justice or of economic prosperity, the less people are taxed, the better. That is why we should rejoice at every new loophole, new credit, new manifestation of the “underground” economy. Every economic activity that escapes taxes and controls is not only a blow for freedom and property rights; it is also one more instance of a free flow of productive energy getting out from under parasitic repression. Long live BTC!

You are right, it's the system of oppression, but more of a system that allows the politicians to realize their goals at your expense, because they are not your goals, they are their goals.
How does it benefit the average taxpayer that the government builds itself a new marble statue, or a marble staircase in one of their buildings? How does it benefit you that they hire a PR firm to make them look good?
It's common knowledge thet a large portion of tax money gets wasted on stupid things and that the more they get from you the more they'll be able to waste. If a politician manages to get another 1% from you, he'll be able to give it away to his voters and buy their support, so that he can stay in his chair for another term. I've seen it done so many times because for 1 average rich person there's always 3 people on benefits. If you take away from that 1 person and give it to those 3 you'll statistically gain 2 votes. Socialism is still alive and doing well.