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by ghostwriter 2133 days ago
> Your tax dollars as a wealthy individual also pay for the police forces to keep the less wealthy people from coming and just taking your property

No disagreement with that, I am willing to pay for police protection of my property and myself, after all that's a valid purpose of a government. Yet this topic is not about paying for your protection, is it? This topic is about ever-growing attempts to extort money for an unknown cause under a pretense of virtue.