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> The primary activity of both the federal/central and state governments in India is theft (through [...] taxes),

This is just nonsense. Taxation has nothing to do with theft.

> If you don't pay [...] taxes, you either get in trouble, or don't get basic services.

As you should. Not getting in trouble for tax evasion would be a sign of a dysfunctional government.

> A good chunk of the tax revenue is robbed by at various points due to corruption, and rarely does the majority of it actually get used for public services.

> So is this, of course. Up until around 1990, the governments agenda was perpetual poverty

People who are pointlessly evil, not just egoistic and corrupt, are rare. I don't think the Indian people managed to elect them into government for decades.



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