Receiving government money (even in salary) comes from behind the point of a gun

Pretty amazing. Having said that, yes, it is a literal gun and I don't know how or why you got into the monetary system of government and dollars and such but this has nothing to do with that. It might have made more sense for your time and effort to just accept the debate in the first round. Let me give you an example of how people who receive money from the government (tax dollars) is getting money from behind the point of a gun. Let's say you are a school teacher in a government school (please don't refer to them as public schools in my presence). You get a paycheck. Now, the question is "where did that money come from. " It comes from the county government. Where does the county government get it? They get it from property taxes of landowners. How do they get it? They send a notice in the mail once a year and the landowner pays it. What if the landowner does not pay it? They start by sending more notices, each more threatening than before and finally, they send you a notice to evacuate the premises because they inform you that they are seizing the property and it will go up for auction. What if you do not leave the property? Now, pay attention closely because this is the brutal truth. They send the sheriff or other branch of law enforcement to pay you a friendly visit to tell you that it is time to leave. What if you slam the door and tell them that this is your property and you paid for it and you do not owe anyone anything on it? That is when they get out the guns and if you resist, they will use them. Yes, they will shoot you with real guns if you resist enough in order to pay that teacher's salary. Do you see now how a schoolteacher's salary comes ultimately from behind the point of a gun? It is that simple. All you need to do now is substitute some other method of receiving money from the government and trace the money trail as to how the government got it. They don't "ask" for property taxes, income taxes and a host of other taxes. They tell you in so many polite words through mail-in notices the following unmistakeable message: "Pay the amount that we demand or we get out the guns. " It is just an issue of when you will concede, not if or how. I know people don't like this. Boy, my Dad did not like it when I told him that his Social Security came to him that way. He said "I paid into the system all my life and I am just getting back what's mine! " Wrong, Dad. You paid X amount and you are getting back MUCH more than the X you paid in which he admitted to. The minute you receive back one penny more than what you paid in, you are gettting money from behind the point of someone else's gun. Do NOT argue with me on the morality of taxes because that is a much longer debate and has nothing to do with this debate. Not all taxes are immoral and only a fool thinks that all taxes are moral just because some law approves of a certain tax. The morality or lack thereof in a tax is entirely how it is collected. If it involves pointing a gun at someone, it is immoral. It is quite funny that the average person who gladly takes that government check that has been taken from someone else would never take their own gun and point it at their neighbor and say "give me" because I want it. They want the strong arm of government to do what they would never conceive of doing.