That's not how taxation works or has ever worked. You don't PAY taxes, they are TAKEN from you by force. You have just never let it escalate that far as you have always complied. Just see what happens if you don't cough up every year.

Secondly, taxation is only a small part of how a government siphons wealth from the population for their own purposes. There is no free market monetary system. It is centralized and controlled by the government. They use modern monetary theory or Keynesian economic policy to print "currency" into existence (digital and physical). They get to use this newly minted currency at its nominal value while by the time it hits us it's devalued due to inflation. This is a silent tax that spans generations.

And before anyone says "but that's controlled by the central bank and they're a private company blah blah". No they fucking aren't. Their profits might be privatized, but their existence is written into law by government and provided a monopoly that is enforced by the state. Just see what happens if you try and compete with them and issue a competing currency. It won't be Jerome Powell kicking down your door. It will be the police. Even decentralized cryptocurrencies have trouble escaping government control.

So even if everyone stops paying taxes they'll just fund their escapades via currency creation. Just as they have done for the last year during covid. A time where everyone is unemployed and tax revenue is almost non existent.

That's not how taxation works or has ever worked. You don't PAY taxes, they are TAKEN from you by force. You have just never let it escalate that far as you have always complied. Just see what happens if you don't cough up every year.

Secondly, taxation is only a small part of how a government siphons wealth from the population for their own purposes. There is no free market momentary system. It is centralized and controlled by the government. They use modern monetary theory or Keynesian economic policy to print "currency" into existence (digital and physical). They get to use this newly minted currency at its nominal value while by the time it hits us it's devalued due to inflation. This is a silent tax that spans generations.

And before anyone says "but that's controlled by the central bank and they're a private company blah blah". No they fucking aren't. Their profits might be privatized, but their existence is written into law by government and provided a monopoly that is enforced by the state. Just see what happens if you try and compete with them and issue a competing currency. It won't be Jerome Powell kicking down your door. It will be the police. Even decentralized cryptocurrencies have trouble escaping government control.

So even if everyone stops paying taxes they'll just fund their escapades via currency creation. Just as they have done for the last year during covid. A time where everyone is unemployed and tax revenue is almost non existent.