Popa: R’ Schachter says that modern-day taxes are different than taxes back then. Back then taxes were paying for permission to not be expelled from the land. Nowadays it’s a Shutfus in things like public works and garbage and such, and as such by refusing to pay taxes I would be stealing from the community. That’s also almost Mefurash what that Ran says too, I think. I think his reading is much easier than saying that no Dina D’Malchusa at all exists in these cases.
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