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Taxes, simply put, if you have to pay to maintain something that was never yours... as simple as that, if you stop paying taxes on a piece of land you would lose it, if you stop paying your car you would lose it, your house, etc. Taxes are things of the devil, something satanic.
What about things that are shared possessions, common possessions. Corporal, physical 'ownership' is just one type.
There is maintenance costs in terms of energy, compute and storage to maintain something even digitally owned by someone.
Running a node is supplying to the commons, and the resource costs are a form of implicit taxation on the participants.
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