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not really.

From wikipedia:

The scenarios in which tyranny perception occurs are very specific, involving a sort of distortion of democracy preconditions:

- Centralization: when federation makes a decision that should be local. => NOT THE CASE.

- Abandonment of rationality: when a decision "which bases its claim to rule upon numbers, not upon rightness or excellence"

Unless you argue taxing is irrational.




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