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By Susan Wight, published 29/5/2017Bureaucrats are gradually writing themselves more power even though they represent no one and can never be voted out. They are eroding democracy.
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If you are referring to taxpayers' money, I would say "by mutual consent", not simply "by force". In a representative system it's the elected parliament that decides on taxation. The representative system is in accord with majority consent (not mine but the majority must prevail).
An actual democracy (to which we must aspire) would include Binding Citizen-Initiated Referenda (BCIR) - for example the Theft Tax stolen from all people whenever they buy goods and services would never have been imposed.
There is no place in the world where an individual can maintain life while being in sole control of what happens to his or her property. Nor could there be as there would be no property, and nobody to protect him/her from the first predator to come with a gun. It's all a pointless dream of an individual who depends on what organised society offers while disavowing organised society.