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Now, I will say I understand why taxes and government exists. It is just that I have no illusion of it that makes me think it is anything more than the mafia getting together and offering protection money.

They tell people they will protect them if they pay a fee or tax. And if they don't? Well....that is not a very good idea...

This is essentially the idea of government. Back in the day when people lived on farms and etc, it was easy for a more powerful neighbor or stranger to come and take their stuff.

So some guys got together and made essentially a protection service and a code of law of how to use it and punish people who broke it.

Then government was born.
But of course, no one wants to offer said protection for free....not the mafia...and not government.

As such, I do pay my taxes and I am not a sovereign citizen.
But you obviously haven't thought about why government exists and when you actually agreed to the social contract if your answer is what you gave.
Notwithstanding, beyond the idea of tacit agreement also comes that the government puts you in their schools and pours into your mind their propaganda about how great they are and why what they do is right. It works as we see you bought into it heavily.
All I offer is for you to actually consider the idea a bit more. It is theft. Does that mean it shouldn't exist? Not necessarily.
But just because it needs to exist doesn't make it not theft.

Maybe sometimes the mafia does actually protect businesses from other gangs and bad people other than themselves as well.
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