These anti-tax people are morons. Taxes pay for essential services, which if we were lacking, this country would be a shith*le more akin to a rinkydink nation in Africa or South America.
Even the socialist republics of west Europe pay about the same in taxes and get much higher rated standard of living, along with non-sucky public transportation and universal health care. Their equivalents to Social Security also aren't 10 years from imploding.
Like being able to drive on an actual road? Taxes paid for it.
Not the income tax; The movie's focus is solely on the income tax.
Like the fact that if your house catches fire or your child falls in the pool, the fire department shows up?
City taxes, sometimes state taxes in some states. Nothing coming in from the income tax.
Like the fact that you have a free education?
Local property taxes. Some federal handouts here and there, but hardly enough to starve education if it was removed. Not that Napolitano and the AZ Senate haven't driven the last nail into its coffin in this state.
Your streets are patrolled by police, the military stands guard over our country, welfare is in place to support those who have fallen on hard times, etc.
Police dept's are funded by cities. The military's funding almost directly correlates with corporate taxes. Welfare is surprisingly cheap to fund, and would be easily covered by the states or some other federal sales tax, which some do take partial responsibility.
These people need to look at the US Constitution.
They did, and found that the 16th amendment didn't cover a direct tax on wages, just profits and stock earnings. The search for the law defining the income tax as one on wages is a quest that forms the plot of the film. Alas, constitutional ambiguity strikes again.
