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ARGUMENT; We must all ['undertake' to] pay [some level of] taxation, if we live in a nation like Australia.
If we want to maintain a stable political environment/system, then we [the citizens] need to [materially] contribute to the cost of providing institutions and services which establish and maintain such a stable political environment/system.
With everyone paying a share of the 'upkeep' of those systems is the 'toll' we must all pay. [and it is the [elected] government which sets up systems to decide, what our individual fair 'contribution' will be. i.e. if you don't like paying the share of taxation which you currently pay, THEN YOU CAN CHANGE THE GOVERNMENT.]
Police, roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, universities, government bureaucracies which monitor and maintain 'Australian Standards' [in food production, building standards, telecommunication standards, quality control in pharmaceuticals, and on...], courts and the justice system, border controls, national defence spending, and on....
It all must be paid for [...if we want to have these services and societal institutions, in Australia].
Q. Where would you rather live ?
A place like Australia ?
Or somewhere like Nigeria, S. Africa, Zimbabwe, or Uganda ?
ARGUMENT; It is the citizens respect for 'rules' and and the need for taxation, in nations like Australia, which help to maintain the 'standards' which we all benefit from in our daily lives, imo.
[This of course assumes, that our government is NOT incompetent, and is NOT politically corrupt, in where it will spend our taxes, and in how it undertakes and discharges its duty as a servant of the citizens.]
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