Which I mean, my wife believes that the government using the threat of violence to collect taxes is immoral, unethical, and that all transactions between all individuals should be voluntary and nonviolent. Which in terms of popular discourse, is very "extreme". She was thinking about running for local public office an a platform of "the government will not take away your propery for failure to pay taxes" which a surprising number of local people on Facebook supported. She's been going to Meetups and having people say "oh yeah I saw your meme, the government sucks, keep it up!" She bugs local politicans on Facebook, their ads keep popping up in her feed, so she'll ask them things like "do you think it's moral to seize someone's property when they can't pay their taxes?" which of course gets bullshit nonanswers from politicians. Nobody wants to say "I think it's moral to seize someone's house because they're behind on taxes".
An authoritarian government wouldn't like someone like my wife, and they certainly wouldn't want her getting likes on Facebook. After all, what if she DOES run for office? What if she wins? What if other people like her win?
He doesn't pay taxes. Says he'll pay if he gets pursued by the IRS because it'll be too difficult to fight - but also refuses to participate in fiat currency. (Big on crypto - has the wife do all the fiat handling) Doesn't believe in taxation for the most part. Similar arguments about violence. I didn't really get deep into it - the wife was already pretty out there for a while. (They're both really nice and good people btw - they just have this unusual commitment to their worldview) Interestingly, I think he went even deeper on the views and she decided to reel it back a bit for herself. Suddenly she's not as hyper-capitalist anymore...
It's one of those views that makes ya wonder how you get there and how you decide to go that deep. Admittedly, he's fiendishly rich now thanks to crypto so he can live the fantasy a little bit but it is something that I cannot see someone doing if they weren't rich already.
Sometimes I see them and others and think, "coulda been me". Just didn't click on the right links, I guess. :)