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Originally Posted by ticktockclok  Hmm.... ok. I still consider taxation to be a terrible thing, but I can see that within "the law", its essentially impossible to evade taxes. |
Taxes are a necessary evil for civilization to function. However, how much tax is necessary and what it's used for is a debatable issue. According to
this website, about half of US income tax is being spent on military expenses. Is this really necessary? Who exactly is going to invade this country in the next 50 years? There hasn't been a superpower around that can match the US since the breakup of the Soviet Union. The Iraq war is a
total waste of resources and lives. Our tax money is being used to "police the world" (and that phrase is actually a sugar coating for "change things around for the benefit of the US"). So in that sense, taxes
can be a terrible thing since they can get misused by those in power.