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A big government with military bases around the world could extend its tax base even to that tiny government.

Bombing people for more tax revenue seems like the wrong thing.

Not bombing, a threat would suffice.

So we should bully people for tax revenue?

And when some of those people say no? That seems like either a short lived con or very quickly we are bombing people.

Why not just literally put a gun to someones head and rob them then? Skip the middlemen. Bombs are expensive as is jet fuel.