&quot;<i>Wouldn&#x27;t it be nice to live in a society where &quot;everyone&quot; enjoyed the gift of giving?</i>&quot;<p>I fully agree with this, even though I completely disagree with the concept of taxation. If you have to have taxation to somehow collectively pay for the things society supposedly &quot;needs&quot;, then have <i>everyone</i> pay for it. We are, after all, in the same boat, so we should all pay for it. And when I say everyone, I really mean everyone that has <i>any</i> income.<p>Though, to be fair, I live in a society where something close to 90% (the bottom-most earners) don&#x27;t pay any income-tax at all. And stuff, society and government function. Sort of.