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I'd say why government focuses on the weak when enforcing taxes and doesn't go after the rich and their notoriously tax avoiding multinational organisations?

>>intric+(OP)
Yes, property and sales taxes are regressive taxes. But all taxes should be voluntary because the government doesn't own you or your property.

>>Wincys+p4
> But all taxes should be voluntary because the government doesn't own you or your property.

Yeah, it doesn't own it: the relationship is more fundamental than that. Government (and its primitive antecedents) is the system that enables you to own property in the first place, and taxes (or their equivalents) are the price of admission to that system.

I wouldn't mind making taxes voluntary if it also meant surrendering property and other rights (though of course to be just that surrender could only happen after a formal renunciation of the obligation, not just a failure to pay). So you could choose to not pay taxes, but then all your property would become legally abandoned and you'd lose the protection of the law.