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Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need, live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

Today in the show, I'm going to tackle more of a philosophical

discussion, not a lot of real practical nuts and bolts financial planning this

show in fact nothing of that but if you're interested in philosophical

discussions around money and and government and things like that,

especially as it relates to tax, then you might enjoy today's show.

So with that caveat, I'll tell you the question.

The question comes in from a listener, writes in, says, hi Josh, I I really enjoy your podcast I've learned a lot and I really like your more

than average philosophical approach to many of the topics however I have a small

rant these different feelings might be just because I am from Europe and you are from the USA, but I don't understand why so many Americans hate or don't trust governments and try to minimize tax payments.

Your last episode on Cash advantage touched on this as well.

I understand that government wastes a lot of tax money but it also does a lot of good

infrastructure financing research and science, health care, even social care, etc.

We take benefit of roads when we travel and police when we need them, but we don't like paying taxes.

Would you rather pay a toll tax for every road you use and pay a

police woman every time you need them? I know this is a never-ending discussion but

just felt like saying this after your last episode and the examples that you gave

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