I mailed my taxes (the last time I did pay taxes) to a physical address that actually exists in the universe.
If I were to go there and ask the people working there, "Where is the government?" They would look at me like I'm retarded.
The only correct answer to "where is the government" is "YOU and ALL OF US are the government."
In other words, it's imaginary.
The fact that you don't get this, that you conflate the unreal for the real, the symbol for the thing itself, shows me that you are incapable of rational thought.
You can look up the addresses on the IRS.gov website. You can buy a ticket to the US (assuming you can get a visa) and visit those locations yourself.
Likely it went into a PO Box, which was either collected daily or shipped directly to a mailroom. Someone had to physically open the letter, either scan in the documents or just put them in a folder, and then take the check to the bank to get it cashed.
The funds were transferred to an account controlled by specific people in the government, and so on and so forth.
The government isn't real. People are real. Mail trucks are real. Letters are real. Paperwork is real. Checks are real. There is actually a building somewhere where there is either my forms filed or it's scanned in and stored as 1s and 0s on a physical hard drive or spread out across hundreds of hard drives in a redundant array.
Try to stop paying taxes and you will see that the government is very real.
If I were to go there and ask the people working there, "Where is the government?" They would look at me like I'm retarded.
The only correct answer to "where is the government" is "YOU and ALL OF US are the government."
In other words, it's imaginary.
The fact that you don't get this, that you conflate the unreal for the real, the symbol for the thing itself, shows me that you are incapable of rational thought.
OH, MY SIDES
Likely it went into a PO Box, which was either collected daily or shipped directly to a mailroom. Someone had to physically open the letter, either scan in the documents or just put them in a folder, and then take the check to the bank to get it cashed.
The funds were transferred to an account controlled by specific people in the government, and so on and so forth.
The government isn't real. People are real. Mail trucks are real. Letters are real. Paperwork is real. Checks are real. There is actually a building somewhere where there is either my forms filed or it's scanned in and stored as 1s and 0s on a physical hard drive or spread out across hundreds of hard drives in a redundant array.