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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's what? 300 million or so people in the US? If every one of those fails to pay $10 a year in sales tax, that's an income of $3bn that the government is being deprived of. That's serious money!
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First, it's governments, plural, not government; each jurisdiction is separate. In the US there is a wide variety of tax schemes based on each state and in many cases each county, or even each taxing jurisdiction. Second, we don't consider the government to be entitled to our money. By law, we pay taxes that are used for the common good, but that is money we pay to ourselves for our own benefit. We simply use a bureaucracy to manage the appropriation and usage of our money.