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Taxes are how society gets assets to pay for what it does for its citizens, the natural world and more.

It is how it pays for schools, military security, emergency response teams, feed the hungry, helps those who can't take care of themselves, pays for research (medical/science/artisitc...all types of things), builds roads, buildings, tries to cntrol wild rivers, puts in sanitaion systems.....etc., etc.

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