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Job creation is not all it's cracked up to be. It's one thing to figure out what someone else can do for others that will make those others want to give the someone money. That's great, but in many cases, the others DON'T want to give the someone any money. Who wants to pay an IRS agent? What about those people that the state department is hiring because of the millions and millions of Americans who now want passports because of new laws? Who want to pay them? I do a job and the people who pay me are happy to do so. It would otherwise be their own money and they could keep it. But they know that I can make things work better, so they give me their money to write code. Then I have money to pay other people (or companies) to do things I want them to do. We can get what we want from others when we have money, and we can get money by providing others with what they want. All this desire-fulfillment is magical to me. But throw in some taxes and you see that the desire drains away and people start suing each other left and right and they call money the root of all evil.
Other people argue that it is our great democratic government that has made desire-fulfillment as easy as it is in America, and that the taxes we pay support that democratic government. It's as if the freedom the colonists sought when they left England and then actually risked their lives challenging the most powerful king in the world has nothing to do with it. Hopefully someday, enough people will realize how taxation destroys the magic (trading relationships) that human society naturally produces, and we'll knock it the hell off.
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