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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Aug-2018 19:27:16 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   I'm not against the idea of taxation for the sake of the common good per se, but if you view the government as a generic large organisation, it's not a pleasant sight. At the top are well-paid executives, and beneath them are a gray mass of bureaucrats who get punished if they make a mistake, but no reward if they excel at their job, and it's an inefficient organisation, because if you spend too much money, you can always invent a new tax. I don't feel happy about paying for that.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Aug-2018 19:31:50 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      I also don't feel happy about paying for a system that has humiliated me every time I've needed its assistance. A cold and uncaring system, frictionless only to people who conform to it perfectly. I avoid touching the system as much as possible, instead relying on my network to survive. I paid for bariatric surgery out of my own pocket to avoid dealing with the public health system. So, yeah, due to this, I do not happily pay taxes.