Taxes are expression of feudalism in disguise. The medieval attitude on lords and their peasants owing them their hand's work, has never really ended. Most people still get owned by a state, govenrment, nation. As if it were natural. It isn't.
that why modern Greek has such a inferior bureaucratic administration structure and inefficient land registry offices until 2007 at least. In most ancient Greek cities, taxes were NOT called up. To pay taxes was seen as a symbolic act of paying tribute to an opressor, doing so of course was either dishonourable or cowardly or both: in any case an expression of submission and servility.
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