I have to interact with federal agencies routinely as a part of my job. The way they view federal property as being almost sacrosanct makes me so angry. Motherfuckers, that pickup you drive to the woods to not actually do any work was purchased by me and my family. The forests you refuse to manage and constantly try to gate off and close are not yours, they belong to us.

Care used to be taken of federal property as it was understood to be collectively owned, at least ostensibly. But now every public servant views the general population as some sort of "civilian" who is beneath their interest.

One guy I worked with just left the private side for a federal job where he is paid more and has zero production requirements. He asked why more of us didn't want to join him. I told him before he left that most of us don't want our entire lives to be funded by tax receipts.

theft extortion, because they threaten harm if you don't pay.

And every time the police are sued for wrongful death or some other fuck up and there's a million dollar settlement, that's not costing the police department anything. It's the taxpayer footing the bill for it.

I like it, when people start saying "Government funded" or "Free government service" I'm going to start correcting them with "Taxpayer funded".

It's much worse than that. Government doesn't need taxpayer money at all since it merely creates currency when it wants. Taxes are only used as a control mechanism. Currency creation is theft too, since that raises our cost of living and causes us to work more for the same things.

Our government is a cartel of criminals stealing our labor, nothing more.