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by TeMPOraL 3772 days ago
It's a part of the social contract, and in most countries you can voice your opinion about the magnitude of the taxes.

But you can also look at it as a free market choice - after all, this is a voluntary transaction, you buy services from the government (like schools, medical care, internal and external security, water treatment, electricity, and many others) and you pay for them with taxes. You can always refuse the deal if you don't like it - by renouncing your citizenship. ;).

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You're Polish, right? So obviously, having voiced your opinion, you are now going to make an honest best effort to abide, not just by the letter of the law as laid down by PiS, but by the full spirit of it too? Either that, or renouncing your citizenship?

Or do you feel there is room for subversion and disobedience in, say, social, law enforcement and immigration policies that just doesn't apply to tax policy?