03-15-2012, 04:44 PM
The power to use force to achieve a goal through coercion is usually denied people but granted to government so that the citizens will know that someone will compel citizens to follow just rules and laws. This coercion is what allows governments to compel citizens to respect the rights, property and persons of others. If there were no government, people would tear each other apart, and not just in a figurative sense, but literally.
Thus, governments DO have to power to compel us to pay taxes.
The answers above give the correct solution: if you don't like the taxation the government levies, then work to change the taxes or to change the government.
But pay the taxes you are responsible for UNTIL they are changed.
Thus, governments DO have to power to compel us to pay taxes.
The answers above give the correct solution: if you don't like the taxation the government levies, then work to change the taxes or to change the government.
But pay the taxes you are responsible for UNTIL they are changed.