it is not about the government being objectively awful, it is about the government regulating. A great deal of the tax code is about giving certain groups tax breaks while preventing other people from using those to create loopholes to avoid taxes. The conservative tax lobbyists actually want to reduce the effectiveness of taxation not its complexity.
> it is not about the government being objectively awful, it is about the government regulating.
Well, the government is no more awful than any other Mafia.
Think about it. If you don't pay protection money / taxes, you get kneecaps busted / imprisoned.
Neither is something you want to happen, so you pay up. Government is essentially just a vehicle for exploiting people on a massive scale.
Your average mafia couldn't possibly pull off extorting 300 million people, but a government can and does, because people believe it's necessary "for the common good".
