jayeff

That approach to the discussion of taxation (of which anyway income tax is only one aspect) is a lot like the way people dismiss national healthcare based only on the weaknesses of the Canadian system. It's a nonsense to take anything so completely out of context and to dismiss it because of the way that, historically, it has been administered.

We have a very real problem. So long as people will vote for the politicians who offer most and there is nothing to prevent them offering more than we can afford, the result will be debt. But that is not the problem of taxation itself and anyway, whatever name you use, payment for the provision of essential services and facilities is taxation: even if I pay my bills to privately owned companies.