[dekken_]

You understand surely, that just because people vote, doesn't mean their representatives actually do anything that the people that voted want?

come on

[afavour]

To stop dancing around the obvious: I understand that you don’t want to pay taxes and are annoyed that you live in a society that has decided, via very regular democratic process, that people should pay taxes.

That doesn’t mean democracy is a failure, it just means your opinion is in the minority.

[dekken_]

now you're just lying, blatantly.

My point was about the degree of taxation.

[mattmcal]

I believe the saying is "no taxation without representation", not "no taxation without personal approval".

[dekken_]

representation is the will of the people, the approval of persons, so I fail to see the difference