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From: Kevrob <kjrobinson@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 17:58:29 -0400
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On 5/25/2024 1:56 PM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 25 May 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 
>> D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>>> What are you saying? I do not understand what you are saying.
>>>>
>>>> There are many things that need to be in place for me to feel good 
>>>> about
>>>> paying taxes.   Fairness in taxation is one of them.  But there are 
>>>> many
>>>> others; if a large portion of the taxes go to funding Mr. Mobutu, I and
>>>> many others feel less good about paying taxes, for instance.  
>>>> Fairness in
>>>> taxation is not the only thing but it is certainly an imporant thing.
>>>
>>> There can never be fairness in taxation, since taxation is theft. Or are
>>> you of the opinion that what is forbidden for individuals should be
>>> allowed by the government?
>>
>> Taxation is part of the social contract that you agree with to live in a
> 
> That' incorrect. I have never signed such a contract based on free, 
> informed consent. And anything which is not based on free, informed 
> consent, is not a contract.
> 
> I won't agree to any other definitions of that term.
> 
>> place.  If you don't agree with it, that's okay, you can go live 
>> somewhere
>> else.  As long as there is somewhere else to go, you can't call operating
>> fees a form a theft.  I think this is where you have gone wrong.
> 
> Nope. You are shifting the blame to the victim. I have the most right to 
> my piece of land, that I use and have paid for and no one else. If a 
> bully comes (the government), I fight back. It's absurd to say... oh, 
> you can just leave, that is siding with evil.
> 
> So far my fight has pushed down my taxes to about 9% to 14%, but I hope 
> to be able to push it down further still.
> 
>> --scott
>>

US Citizens have to pay to expatriate.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expatriation-tax

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Kevin R


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