I really can't comprehend how anyone can be against the social contract, it's pretty common sense to me. My only problem with taxes is from corruption, ie. when taxes end up in somebody's pocket instead of where they are supposed to go or when the elected representatives draft tax budgets that go in favor of donors/lobbyists/etc instead of the people they are supposed to represent.
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It is an interesting point of view. For me personally it is also a normal thing to pay taxes in order to establish a well functioning society.
Having lived in a country that has no corruption and a country with a high level of corruption, I also agree with your point that corruption is the only motivation against paying taxes.
I agree with you that the problem with taxes is corruption. The intention is good but the execution is bad. On some cases, loopholes are prevalent that the BIG fishes continue to exploit while the small fishes suffers and just accepts the outcome.
Well that is unfortunately a big part of the game. If you are big enough then you write your own rules. The classic excuse for the multi national companies is that they are creating jobs, so if the governments wants to tax them, then they would have to find an alternative. The governments therefore tends to give in.
In many welfare societies it is the tax money of the middle class that makes things run.
You call others idiots, but you don't even realize the "social contract" is just a name for a particular state of affairs that can arise in societies, not a literal contract. As an anarchist I believe any system of power and coercion that can't justify itself should be dismantled and replaced with something more just. You are not gonna easily convince me that the social contract doctrine cannot be easily justified. You don't sign off to (virtually) anything in a society. Society has norms and also laws. You are born into it and by the time you reach age of consent you don't need to sign anything, your agreement is implicit. So you can either decide to accept them, you can challenge them or you can leave.
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