yes, gaslit

you press one of these authoritarian statist tax collector types whether the law says it's mandatory and oh, they get all defensive and claim it's voluntary according to the text of the *statutes*

so i'm going with the word of the law here, because that's how it works

and because i have hardly anything to lose if they send thugs to break my legs for it, i'll just cough it up and then go back to being a hobo

really, how anyone can call this civilization is beyond me

it's the reason the closer i get to government the worse i feel, i like it out here in the boonies, i'm never moving back to dense urban settlements