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Look, all you need to know about the government is that they take our money by force. If the masses benefited from having a government, they wouldn't need to do that.

No seriously. Think about it. It really is as simple as that. Apple doesn't have to force people to buy their devices.

People aren't extorted for their benefit, but the extorter's, even if the extortion is shrouded in brainwashing, propaganda, rituals and so on.

So once you accept that taxation is extortion and politicians are psychopaths, you'll start being able to make sense of the insanity of the world.

This book thoroughly destroys most of the pro-state arguments people have come up with: http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/Contents.pdf

Are you uncomfortable with reading that? -Well why might that be? What sense does it make? Keep going anyway.