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Paying taxes is patriotic in one sense.

But not feeding the monster is also patriotic.

Fundamentally, if I knew tax dollars were were being spent efficiently, I wouldn't have a problem paying 'higher' taxes.

Corruption, inefficiency make it impossible to support tax increases.

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So Greece should become the world's first anarchist state? Paying taxes there is only supporting corruption, bureaucracy (including their debt holders) and inefficiency. Part of their problem is that no one was paying taxes to start with. Not paying taxes is a form of corruption.

What you are talking about is a problem of government accountability. What you are suggesting is fighting fire with fire.

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