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How you remain so obtuse seems to be a matter of conscious choice. Perhaps amoebic life does possess intelligence after all...

Great argument Graham.

Sorry man. The trolling bothers me. If you don’t file your taxes, and continue to try to keep your own money, you will be locked up. If you try to resist that, you will be killed. That’s slavery.

Usually they will just garnish your wages, someone in prison can't pay their back taxes. You won't be killed for not paying your taxes. If you try to attack a police officer they may defend themselves but tax evasion in America is not a capital offense, sorry, that's just not how it works. Your hyperbole bothers me, do you think that's really a good rhetorical device?
It's funny, whenever I question something you say then it's "trolling". You posting 5 times a day things like
" ATTN: All “Pragmatists” “Let’s All Just Get Along” Types. THIS IS WHAT YOU FAIL TO GRASP. FUCKING. READ. THIS."

Not trolling, got it.

You won't be killed for not paying your taxes.

Read what I wrote again. Yes. You will. If you resist, you will.

If you resist being robbed. Read my comment in reply to your comment above.

Your hyperbole bothers me, do you think that's really a good rhetorical device?

It’s not hyperbole. That’s the thing.

Claiming ownership on another’s body is slavery.

Nope, no one gets killed in the US for nonpayment of taxes, nobody, it is just not a capital offense. By "resist" do you mean "physically attack a police officer"? Your whole argument is based on that premise yet no one is killed for not paying their taxes because not paying taxes is not a capital offence. Find me a case in the US of someone being executed for tax evasion.

Claiming ownership on another’s body is slavery.

neither of our definitions defined it as that. If you feel that you are enslaved because you have to file a form with the government that says you make less than 6 figures abroad so that you don't have to pay any US taxes then you can always simply renounce your citizenship. It can be done in less than 90 seconds.
Can a slave make a declaration and then no longer be beholden to their master?

By "resist" do you mean "physically attack a police officer"?

By “resist” I mean, defend oneself from being extorted with physical force.

...you can always simply renounce your citizenship. It can be done in less than 90 seconds.

Incorrect. You have to apply and pay a fee, because in the eyes of the law, we don’t own ourselves. The state does.

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It's fasinating how some create a split between the initial action of the state threatening and extorting you (initiating violence) and the follow up action the state takes (which are all violence), then turn it completely around as if you are the initiator of the violence when you defend yourself or are disobedient, as if you have obey someone that has got orders to violate you some more.

By “resist” I mean, defend oneself from being extorted with physical force.

I am going to need a "yes" or "no" on whether that involves physically assaulting the police officer serving a valid arrest warrant.

B. ELEMENTS OF RENUNCIATION
A person wishing to renounce his or her U.S. citizenship must voluntarily and with intent to relinquish U.S. citizenship:
appear in person before a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer,
in a foreign country at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate; and
sign an oath of renunciation

That's it. They don't say anything about a fee, it's done only in person, you don't "have to apply"

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/us-citizenship/Renunciation-US-Nationality-Abroad.html

The answer to your meme is clear from the definition it's <100%.

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