Not there yet huh? At what point for you two does it finally arrive?
I mean, cancel your LTCH, Driver's License, and change your tax forms to where you pay taxes yourself instead of automatically deducting them.
Then, OC your pistol into the nearest license branch while you hand them your drivers license. If you make it out of there not if handcuffs, drive down I70 at 90mph until you get to Terre Haute and come back to Indy. If you make it back without a speeding ticket and your vehicle still in your possession, stop paying taxes for a couple years.
When you get out of prison a felon with most of your rights stripped away, then come tell me about how free we all are.
You have a very confused concept of "freedom".
I would say that your definition more closely resembles "anarchy".
There have always been laws. There will always be laws, unless of course you live on a deserted island & get to make your own rules. Even then there are rules, you just get to make them all. Let just one more person onto the island & soon you'll have to start making rules to regulate interaction between you (IOW, LAWS) & you'll both have to start contributing to the upkeep of the areas owned in common (i.e. taxes or their equivalent in labor).
There have always been taxes. Even during the Founders time, which everyone always holds up as the "Golden Age".
Name one civilized society in history where your ideal was in effect. Just one.
You can't because there hasn't ever been one in which there were NO LAWS & NO TAXES. The only places that have even come close to that ideal have been the small communes that pop up from time to time. Hmmm...communes...from which we get the term communism...so it seems like what you are asking for is a communistic economy & society where no one pays taxes, everyone is equal & every person has an exactly equal say in every law thats made. Nah, can't be.
I think you need some perspective. Go to Iran, or Korea, or China or, heck, even England & then tell me that we live under tyranny.
Do we have some stupid laws? Yes. Do we have too many laws? Yes. Could it be worse? Way worse? Hell yes.
I'm not ready to pick up a gun against my government.
That HAS TO BE a last resort & no, we're not there yet.
When will it arrive? I don't know but as Justice Stewart, in a decision about pornography, said "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it."
I'll know it when I see it.
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