Young liberals are so funny creatures! Imagine that. There's a guy, 25 (or so) years old. For the last 25 years he hasn't paid his country a single penny, yet he's been using its services constantly. He's been using all kinds of infrastructure -- roads, pavements, playgrounds, parks, schools, libraries, hospitals, etc. Some of them he's probably abused.
When he's finally got his first paycheck, and realized, that he's just paid an income tax, he's just furious. THESE GREEDY BASTARDS! Nearly one fifth of he's precious salary HAS BEEN STOLEN by outrageous state machine. Now he feels he can rant all over about evil government, who's wasting HIS money.
Dude, when you're paying for, let's say, coffee or haircut, you're exchanging your money for some kind od product or service. When you do it, this is not YOUR money anymore. You don't get to tell the hairdresser or coffeemaker how to spend it. So why do you think it's so much different, if you're paying your country for its services?
And what's with all that "if it's public, it's mine too"? It's not! Public ownership doesn't mean that you're some kind of shareholder. If you change your nationality, you can't take "your share" of national assets. You can't take two bricks of the public library and tell the judge, that you just wanted to manage your share of the institution, and you just calculated that it will be like two bricks.
Concepts like "state", "taxes", "democracy" seem to be understood really shallow by most people.
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