[ora600]

If you are currently living and creating wealth in Somalia, then I agree - society doesn't help you much and if you pay any taxes, you can stop.

If you live in a first world country, you should realize that the difference between your country and Somalia is a result of government work and is funded by taxes.

Secure borders, police guaranteeing your property rights, courts, lack of bribes and corruption (relatively!), good roads, good lines of communications, educated people to hire. They don't just show up randomly in places.

[davidw]

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

That said, this article is basically politics, and should be flagged as such.