Some people think that paying taxes is a big enough contribution to society, while others think people have more responsibilities as a member of society than only paying taxes. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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There are a lot of discussions around ways to take part in social life as a
citizen
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.
Vast majority
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The vast majority
of people believe that paying taxes is enough to be a
descent
socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
decent
citizen
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.
However
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, the
others
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
authors
claim that individuals need to do more to be a fully-fledged part of society. I stick to the
second
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way of thinking. On the one hand, taxes do contribute communities,
therefore
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through giving to a government
money
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a person already can be considered as a
citizen
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who impacts a country in a positive way. Taxes are distributed among citizens and aim at commonwealth.
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, if there were no taxes, most likely there would be no free education, no infrastructure, no
afordable
that you have the financial means for
affordable
medicine service and other goods that support citizens' lives. Paying
fixed sum
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a fixed sum
of
money
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, a person indirectly participates in maintaining all these goods and services.
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, taxes are not enough because social life consists not only of material problems that can be solved with
money
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and proper fiscal systems.
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, governments
also
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face challenges in
areas
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the areas
o
connects a noun with the preceding word
of
ecology, social
iteractions
a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
interactions
, religion and many others.
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, to be a responsible
citizen
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means not only not to avoid
taxes but
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taxes, but
also
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to contribute in finding solutions for problems society struggles with. Without
such
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an impact, taxes will be useless as far as
money
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cannot buy citizens' responsible attitude to recycling in the name of saving the planet or their respect to other nations. Summing up, I think that paying taxes are
important but
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important, but
not only feature of a responsible member of society.
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