thelionroars <thelionroars1337@gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 August 2012 12:33, Alex Hutton <highspeeddub@gmail.com> wrote:
What gives Australia the right to make promises on my behalf and obligate me into fulfilling them?
The fact that it is a government and you choose to live and work here, thus paying taxes. This is so self-evident that I am questioning whether you are genuine in asking. And if you don't like this arrangement, the simple answer is to find yourself a better deal.
And there isn't one, if absence of obligations imposed by the state is what you want, except perhaps Somalia, where there hasn't been an effective government since 1991. Of course, there are strong reasons not to live there... Governments impose obligations on citizens as a necessary condition of conferring the benefits that they provide. That's the nature of the state, and it includes powers of taxation for public purposes, including purposes taht you, personally, might not approve.