>>1367881It does not actually matter where the money is going to - just that it is going out of your pocket without you having a choice.
What matters is the majority of your salary does not belong to you, because someone is taking a cut. And if they don't get that cut, something bad happens to you.
You did not choose this for yourself. Others made that choice for you.
>>1367886>So in your world paying higher taxes is qual to being forced to pay the mafia for protection money?Both involve your property being taken under threat of harm, with the excuse that it is for your own protection.
In both cases you have no choice or alternative. More than half the hours you spend at your job and the earnings derived from that will never reach your own pocket. Someone else owns more of your time than you do.
>If the general population wantedThe general population is not democracy. Democracy is the individual. As an individual you hold no power.
>we would just vote that way, and it would become reality.You cannot vote it away. You can vote for politicians, that uphold the system, but not to change the system itself.
There is no political representation for those who wish to vote it away, which is why your vote does not matter.
>I pay my taxes happily. And I also happen to live in one of the worlds most well-functioning, happy, low-crime, healthy societies with very low corruption and a well working democracy. Remember that none of this was about socialist policy, but about freedom.
So thank you both for inadvertently conceding to my earlier post, that there is no European country that isn't a police state.
Your willful participation in something that is completely mandatory does not negate the fact that it is.
If you still want to maintain that you are free, I will ask you the same question again.
What freedoms do you actually have?
