[PatrioticAmerican]

"Secondly, your taxes provide you with the ownership of a great number of things. In essense, you hire your government(s) to produce public goods for you that would not be provided in a government-free economy. "

The government takes ten times more from me than I receive. Is that the investment you deem so proper? Only a government can provide such things as roads, but I only argue that our government provides far more than the constitution allows it, and takes from us in the same regard.

[TopQuark]

The government takes ten times more from me than I receive. You substitute again the subject of discussion. I was responding to the question of taxation, whether it is proper for the government to extract taxes. You address the question of valuation. APparently, to you our military, public highways, etc. are not worth the taxes you are paying. That is fine, but irrelevant to the question we discussed.