Imagine you are a gun owner living in a poorly secured apartment. On April 15th, your neighbor breaks in, takes your gun and uses it to rob a convenience store and shoot the clerk that works there.
Are you responsible?
Of course not. Someone committed a crime against you and then committed a with what they stole, you are not responsible.
You replace your gun, and everything is fine until the next April, when the same neighbor (who escaped charges for the first event) breaks in, steals your gun again, and uses it to murder someone in a park near your home.
Are you responsible?
No, once again someone stole your gun, so you are a victim. But it was pretty dumb for you not to take better precautions against this happening again.
Once again, you go and replace your gun but don’t move or secure it better, and the next April, the same neighbor (who once again escaped charges on technicalities) breaks in, takes the gun and uses it to murder a family in your building.
Are you responsible this time?
What if you knew that every year for the rest of your life, someone was going to break in, take your gun, and use it to commit crimes. If you had the ability to better secure your gun or to move to a new and safer apartment building where you can be certain this won’t happen, are you not partially responsible if you chose not to act?
I believe the same dynamic applies to taxes. If you are aware of the crimes your government is committing with your tax money, and you have the ability to find ways to legally lower your taxes, or move to a country that has lower taxes and/or a less heinous government, are you not partially responsible if you choose to do nothing?
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