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Do we really understand this term that governments and concerned taxpayers use that somehow the hard earned ready cash that is swiped from our wages without a sniff of a choice from ourselves is our money. How in the name of free markets and capitalism when we did not get a flying chance to say, ‘Er, sorry no, you can’t have it this month I need it for a bill or maybe a nutritious meal for a change is it our money?’

If you travel in London and are displeased with the shoddy service that blatantly fails commuters every time a train is taken from one end of the city to another because no one afford to continuously drive through a congested congestion zone will there be a smidgen of an offer of getting that money back or possibly a small refund, do I hear you say no? your damned right the answer is no because the government controls the travelling system whatever they report and in the same way that our 20%, 40% or worst still 50% has left our wages we will never ever see those funds again and whatever we say the same thing will happen next month and the month after that and thereafter. Our disgruntled emotions will never be addressed and we will never have the opportunity to cop out or opt out of the system unless we pursue a career as a criminal, we are infirmed or worst still deceased.

We often rely heavily on the idea that in a democracy where votes are counted as an indication of one’s preferred party that somehow this might allow for a level of permission for taking our money at will and changing the rules of engagement whenever that party chooses.

Taxation allows us the luxury or impression of security and insurance and in some countries like the Dutch where the levels of tax welfare bears heavily on the general working public, the higher the levy the more secure those taxpayers often feel. Even if somehow down the road that governments chooses to hit heavily with inheritance and capital gains, there is a common conception that it is for the good of the country and the welfare of the people, taxpayers also feel that the dissemination of funds will go to the right causes, us.

Of the 400 billion collected on average in England and Wales from taxes annually, could taxpayers collectively request a mass refund of mismanaged funds and would there be a willingness to choose an alternative for those funds? It may be fair to assume that although we resent the level of taxation that we bear and the way vast sums are spent lining the pockets of those who rule over us that the current system is the only one we know rely on and have.

However, until I have ownership over how my money is spent and whose house it is allowed to furnish, repair or update then I believe the money belongs to whichever government took it this month.