When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.
At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.