It's just a hypothetical question and says nothing about me. I decided to open thread with this question for a lot of reasons which I'll explain down below.
If you think about inflation, taxes and your salary at the same time, you'll understand how the government eats you alive. Let's start with the fact that იf you live in Europe and have a normal salary, you have to leave almost half of it in taxes. Then, when you want to go for shopping and buy something in store, including food, clothes, technics, etc, you have pay your taxes of those items with already taxed money. Then, the store owner has to pay taxes of the income his store generated. Distributors, who deliver things to these stores, have to pay taxes too. Then there are vehicle taxes, property taxes. So, absolutely everything is taxed and on top of that, our salary is taxed and even on top of that, we experience inflation. This is not fair!
So, my legitimate question is, after all the robbery, a person, who doesn't pay taxes, is a bad person for the society or not? More likely I want to get answer from those whose countries have a model similar of European healthcare and employment insurance.
Counter question (also hypothetical).
Is your government bad if it steals public money and actually spends your money from taxes that you pay on your salary, taxes on the purchase of goods and services, taxes paid by sellers of goods and services that you buy, distributors, and so on for personal needs? Instead of using this money for the benefit of society (taxpayers), these officials spend on luxury for themselves. There are a number of countries in which this is exactly what happens, therefore, the question of whether it is a bad act not to pay taxes remains open and will depend on the internal moral attitudes of a particular taxpayer. Also, external factors (environment in a particular country - the presence or absence of corruption) will incline the decision to one side or the other. In some parts of the world it is more expensive for yourself to be a respectable taxpayer.