Bithead: Look, John, that…
Bithead: Look, John, that infrastructure was set up by mutual agreement within this society, within this culture, within this country…. years before any of us were born.
The decision to fund that out of public monies was done long ago. That choice is now part of that society. Call it baggage, call it history, call it what you will, it is part and parcel of what the society has become, so far.
I think this is perfectly absurd. Even if the decision to fund roads by coercive taxation were legitimate then, I don’t see how that obliges anyone now, who (ex hypothesi) wasn’t party to the “mutual agreement.” But let’s pretend for the second that that’s not so. Let’s go ahead and suppose, with you, that using government roads involves you in an obligation to pay taxes.
Fine. I’ll swear not to use government roads, if it means that I don’t have to pay any tax anymore. Will you support my right to refuse to pay taxes as long as I don’t use the roads?
Anticopyright.