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Affairs: Taxes

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Taxes are the means by which governments fund the governance and protection of a nation.

Although taxes are generally accepted as lawful, fair (in a democracy, that is) and necessary for the lawful protection of a nation and it's peoples, many protections and oversights are necessary in order to ensure continued efficacy of the system and freedom from corruption and misuse (malfeasance) of the taxes collected.

There are dangers involved in taxes, particularly in the long term, due to the ability of corruption to infiltrate government, government institutions, and the essential components of the state such as police force's military, judiciary and legal, and health and social care and welfare.

The state of the now deeply and broadly corrupted United Kingdom is a case in point:

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Source References

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Why do we pay taxes?

Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?

The Four Horsemen

Part of the culture of peoples are the economics, and reflected in the economics, at the attitudes within the peoples of nations.

Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?

The following perhaps illustrates some of the most powerful influence in present day political topography of the world

Continuing with the same story

A more complete history of how we arrived at 'Fractional Reserve Banking'

So we have it, wealth, power, and war.

One does well if one bears in mind the features of the European Union when thinking about these factors ...