Just off the top my head…how about all the taxes we pay? Federal tax, state tax, self-employment tax, property tax, gasoline tax, car registration and a lot more.
Even if you own your home free and clear—try not paying property tax and see what happens. Home ownership doesn’t really exist. If the government can take it from you because you didn’t pay a tax, is it really yours?
You can’t even legally have a car without paying the state. When I buy a car from someone the state wants a tax when I buy it and they want me to continue paying them to operate it. I don’t know what it’s like in other states, but here in California we even have to pay a small fee if we plan not to operate our cars on the roads.
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By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.1
— Friedrich A. Hayek
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- Hayek, Friedrich A., The Road to Serfdom, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972. Originally published in Britain in 1944. pp. 82-83.
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