You can’t write off loneliness.
Taxes: A fee paid to the government enabling a person the rights of a citizen as well as partial ownership of all items purchased with portions of said fees.
Paying taxes allows one to be the boss of all government employees, with several qualifiers; state employees are only answerable to payers of taxes in that state, while federal employees are answerable to all of a country’s taxpayers.
When a government employee is in doubt over jurisdiction in regards to taxpayer demands, they should go ahead and do as the taxpayer says. After all, they probably pay your salary somehow.
A sense of entitlement is understandable in a taxpayer, and abuse of their rights as taxpayers should be forgiven on all but the most extreme accounts. After all, none of this would be possible without them. And their taxes.
In a Sentence: “If we hadn’t paid those taxes we wouldn’t be having this kegger in the police parking lot, that’s for sure; let’s go for a joyride on our firetruck when the burgers are done.”