Right, and taxes are the government robbing my family at gunpoint. I remember now. Reddit is having their orange-and-grey color scheme day today and I thought I was reading HN. Sorry.

> Right, and taxes are the government robbing my family at gunpoint.

To be fair, they will come after you with guns if you stop paying taxes.

Your government might. Mine will be grumpy, but is largely gun free. New Zealand.

No phone tracking technology was donated by William and Melinda Gates Foundation and other charitable funds and trusts, you as a consumer totally did not pay for it.

If you are tracked by a system which sustains itself on the money you pay into that system, you are paying to be tracked.