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> Yes. They steal from everyone. That makes it even less fair. I ilustrated an example, where the taxed population was 1, because I wanted to simplify it. 🤦‍♂️ 

Because of capital's influence over the state.

> Yes... That is called a magic tric. Do you seriously think your dad stole your nose? The mere fact, that they spend your money in a longer process doesn't mean it didn't happen.

I'm not even sure what' you're trying to point to here. Of course money will be spent from the pool of resources, and those ought to be to the benefit of the community, which, with capital around, isn't the case.

> thus bound to their electorate

> They provide NOTHING to me. They cannot even make sure to keep the fucking inflation down. 

Roads, police, sewerage, military defense, welfare as an "insurance" to those who are showed into the reserve army of labour, cleaning of public land, emergency services and so on. Could more of that be directed to the public good? Of course yes, but the reason that  doesn't happen is due to capital's influnce over society, not because for some magic reason politicians are completely different from elected member of private company boards.

> They instead spend some of the money on campaigns designed to hurt me through DEI programs. So yes, it would be more accurate to say, that they stole my money to buy an ammo to shoot me with.

Last time I checked you don't live in america