Taken in a whole history of time situation... Bill Gates would either get eaten by a dinosaur, break his neck simply wearing a helmet in the crusades, or be somebody's cowgirl love slave.
The so-called lack of your liberties keeps people from taking what you have.
There's only a finite amount of resources on the continent. You think you should own them cuz yer smart. Others would take them cuz they're bigger than you.
Very simplistic, but whatever... The government, made up of smart pasty frail men, created a system by which smart frail pasty men can control the resources and make money.
Do I have a problem with that? Absolutely not. I'd be dead too. And in the natural order of things, why shouldn't brains overcome brawn? Thing is, without the government, they wouldn't.
So you especially should learn to love them.
Absoshreckinglutely taxes should be a form of redistribution of wealth.
There are a lot of folks not as bright as you. Yeah I know it's a drag... but what's to be done about them? Make them think at your level? Make them function at your level? Give me a break. All men were NOT created equal.
But lotsa them can beat the hell outta you... Can plant bombs... can riot... can loot...
There's a BALANCE that needs to be struck. Sorry for the reality check.
And the line shifts this way and that way... It's about trying to take as much as you can whilst giving only so much away as not to dramatically piss off the rest.
As it stands? Your foes sit on couches watching TV. You have them right where you shrecking want them. It's not science so much as art.
Go ahead step over that line. Take more... Send 'em to the streets... Lets see what happens.
What kind of gun did you end up deciding upon?