You are free to not pay taxes
Ok, so you are just being specious. Carry on...
Your not understanding logic.
If one does not want to be taxed one is free to not be within the arena to be taxed. For example if you feel the government shouldnt tax your paycheck then you are free to not work. Of course the consequence of that is tue failure to maintain your financial obligations. You would realize that your line of thinking fails when you look at it. The government isnt forcing you to do anything.
The government doesnt force the homeless to pay taxes, so what makes you think you are forced to?
I don't like to talk down to people, but ...
That's truly an idiotic conception of freedom and coercion. By your logic, we're "free" to run stop signs, not pay our taxes, commit rape and murder, etc, etc... as long as we comply with any obligations imposed as a result (fines, jail time, capital punishment). And no one is ever coerced to do anything against their will. Any violence they face as a result of their resistance is their own doing.
I guess maybe you're riffing on some esoteric existential conception of freedom that bears no resemblance to the political concept. But here we're talking about the political version. You aren't "free" to do something if you face punishment for doing it. And threat of punishment, backed by violence if you resist, is most definitely "coercion".
Is your goal discussion, or derailing conversation with inane semantics?
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