# 1
Taxation without representation is when the government forces you to pay for something you don't want, you didn't ask for, you don't support, and very often it is something you strongly oppose. For example, public education, social security, foreign wars, and medicare.
People should be able to decide on an individual basis whether or not they want to pay for and/or use a government service. A government should never force anyone to pay for, support, or use a government product or service they don't want or agree with.
That other socialist definition of "taxation without representation" that everyone learns from the socialist public education system is one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated upon humanity.
# 2
You solve tyranny by helping people understand that majority rule vote is never justification for forcing everyone to do anything and everything.
But if you think about it, 51% vs. 49% is not a consensus of to the people. It is a division of the people. It doesn't get much more divided than 51 vs 49.
51% vs 49% is no different than one person bullying and pushing another person around. 66% vs 34% is no different than two people bullying and pushing one person around.
We elect representatives using majority rule, and those representatives can use majority rule to decide which products and services to offer the people, but government should never use majority rule to force anyone to pay for, support or use a service or product.
People should get to decide, at an individual level, using their own free agency, as to whether or not they want to use or support a government service or product.
The only thing that really distinguishes govt from any other business or charity is forced funding. If they don't force you to pay then it's just a voluntarily funded service provider competing for customers in an open market like any other. If you don't believe in forced funding, then congratulations, you have graduated to anarcho-capitalism.
All forms of lowest common denominator (popular vote) choice making need to die. And we don't need "representatives" to make descisions for us. We don't need a special organization offering anything that can't be offered by anyone else. We need crowd funding & other creative voluntary ways of funding necessary organizations & services, a decent private dispute resolution infrastructure, mutual aid societies & insurance cooperatives with incentives balanced using bitcoin collateral & multisig contracts.
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