People may use sin taxes or similar as an outward excuse, but I doubt rational individuals want to overthrow the government because they are paying an extra 25 cents for soda or haven't had their wetlands paved over for additional parking spaces.

Goalpost movement noted.

Is being "driven by the cattle prod" a valid excuse to hold views described as "distrusts or dislikes the government?"

No goal posts were moved, but nice try. You also seem to be under the false assumption that the cattle prod is a real device in this scenario.

Moving from a maximally coercive metaphorical “cattle prod” to a minimal “sin tax” is classic. Go on

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