Money taken by force is theft. Tax is taken by force. Tax is theft. Disguising thievery with the euphemism of, tax, shouldn't fool anyone. Honest thieves don't call it a tax when they knock you down and take your money.
Only Government adds insult to injury.
Gullible defenders say tax is a charge for Government services. Not so. I pay for many services.
All the services I pay for would cut me off if I didn't pay.
None would put me in jail.
Government has all the lawyers, guns, and money. They can knock you down, take your money, and call it whatever they want. You will have to pay, but you needn't give lip-service to the calumny of paying-for-service.
Government, "service", is now approaching 40%
of the entire economy. The percentage grows, and grows, and grows. Eventually we'll live in a Country: of the Government, by the Government, and for the Government.
At that point, probably no one will be allowed to complain about taxes.
Property Tax is worse than any other tax.
If you fail to pay Property Tax, not only will your pockets be emptied, your land will be taken as well.
The Constitution prohibits the Government from, "unreasonable", seizures.
I don't think there is anything reasonable about Government seizing private property.
If the Government can take your land whenever they will, you do not own the land, the Government owns, "your", land.
This effectively means no one in the nation can ever truly, "own", property. Property can only be leased. There is no such thing as private property.
An honest land-grabber would at least spare you
the insult of pretending the forceful seizure of your private property is, "reasonable".
Taxes are collected by threat of force. Without threat of force, who would pay for, "services", they never ordered? No one willingly buys what they don't want.
The combined cost of City, County, State, and Federal tax, is eating the available money of those with low-income, or fixed-income, at an unsustainable rate.
What will happen to those folks when their pockets have been completely emptied?
Will the Government set-up internment camps for the terminally impoverished? Will everyone else pay even higher taxes for this new Government, "service"?
What new tax scheme is being dreamed-up next?
My mind is fuddled by the horror.
It's all quite taxing!