Ron Collins
Aug 27, 2017 · 2 min read

the price we pay for living in a modern, civil society.

So go ahead and pay it, and enjoy your comfortable status as state property. I’ll not try and stop you for submitting yourself to such intolerable tyranny. I just have personally resolved in my own behalf that being beholden to government and answerable to it for what I do all day is nothing I ever agreed to and nothing I will ever capitulate to again.

It’s so odd, and I have observed this over a lifetime, how adherents to any political mindset will posture on and on about this thing or that thing wrong with how their country is run, but at the point where declining to subsidize a rule by gangsters and entrenched civil servants for their own benefit is suggested, all of a sudden it’s all, “I pay my taxes”, as if that had any meaning at all other than being a voluntary chump under continual scrutiny and surveillance by a regime of bureaucrats which couldn’t care less if any one of us lives or dies.

Guilty as charged: I really don’t give a rat’s ass about this so-called “society”, especially when the claim is made that to live among one’s fellow humans and make an honest living is something one needs to submit oneself to government to legitimize. Whatever it is government does all day, and I’m still not too clear on what that is besides line its own pockets and get in people’s way, I’ll not be charged for the lifestyles of those who hitch themselves to it for personal gain and nothing else. If it needs to pay its bills, let it, and I really don’t care how, but not by spying on me nor by reaching into my pockets at gunpoint.

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