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It's not just paying for stuff they use, it's how much they're paying and also the stuff that they don't want be funded (like aid to Israel.)
For example, government funded housing programs don't actually get better deals for their clients. It's essentially a scam to funnel taxpayer money to landlords.
Another example would be medicare and medicaid. Because the industries are privately owned, taxpayers are wasting money to maximize profit for business owners.
I'm sorry that you pay into a system without understanding it, but that doesn't make those who avoid it shitty people.
Do you think the disparity in wealth should grow, or shrink? Funneling taxpayer money to businesses maximizing profit is how the disparity in wealth grows.
If you don't like it, maybe you should advocate for nationalizing industries that suck up taxpayer money.
If you live off the grid and support yourself completely then more power to you. Doesn't sound like that's the case though and you can't simply decide to not pay tax because you disagree with SOME decisions the government makes. I'm not even from the US but I don't like many decisions my government makes. I still pay tax though because it's going to plenty of things I use and letting others pay my share is dickish behaviour. Me not agreeing with the military strategy or distribution of funds to healthcare is a separate issue and if you want to campaign to change that (or similar) that's exactly what you should do (and again, more power to you).
Sure we can.
You can choose to do whatever you want and if you can get away with it, then... you can do it. Lol.
The system is built around taking advantage of people, so it only makes sense that some people take advantage of it.
If you don't like it, then have fun paying into it. It's your money, do what you want with it.
Surely you understand why people would judge that decision as dickish then right? You understand that if everyone had the same mentality it'd be chaos? That it's basically a "well, I got mine!" attitude?
Any of these things? X
No? I didn't think so. Ah well.