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Even worse, they're irrelevant. The central banks of the world have taken money printing to such an insane degree that the notion taxpayers will ever be able to repay that debt has become impossible to entertain (and you betcha it'll get dragged out as long as possible, until every shred of possible sanity has been rendered obsolete)
A factoid I've heard, you can tax %100 of the citizens (i assume this also includes the %1) by %100 of their income, and the national debt still wouldn't be repaid.
Taxes are necessary within government (which i argue is also necessary to arbitrate disputes), but combine that with the opiate that is printing money on credit and everything slowly dissolves away over time, and we're the substance being dissolved.
Still, I'd rather pay tribute to our quell our monetary overlords insatiable appetite lest they confiscate ALL my wealth and throw me in a cage for disobeying them. What a country!