Are you free to quit your job? Maybe...but since its pretty hard to save money when you're shelling out 60% to the overall tax burden you probably wouldn't be able to keep a roof over your head and food on your plate for more than 3 months or so.

If you don't want to do useful labor and still have that roof and food, the style of government you are looking for is Marxist communism. You're, what, 25 years old? And you want to not work anymore and still have a home, food, and other necessities?

You are completely free to quit any job in this country, possibly with civil penalties if you signed a contract of your own free will to the contrary. You would definitely be free of the great majority of your tax responsibility if you did this. If you did this, you would either need to be independently wealthy, or else you would have to rely on taxpayer-funded programs which would provide subsistence-level resources for you.

Freedom doesn't mean "I can do whatever I want without consequences." You're free to quit your job, and everyone else (except the government, ironically) is generally free to stop providing you with food and money. You may be of the opinion that your decade or so of employment entitles you to a lifetime of support, but reality may not agree.

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