Take a look at "your" money. Notice that it says "Federal Reserve Note." That's because it's a promise created, promoted, distributed and backed by the government. In a very real sense, it's their money.
As the "property" you feel so strongly about, belongs to the government, it seems only fair that you should follow their rules in the use and disposition of it, don't you think?
I have another question, too, which is on a completely different tack. Why don't you care about the poor and weak in your society? Don't you see you're all in it together? Doesn't common fellow feeling let you see that trying to lift up the disadvantaged is a genuinely human and humane thing to do?
Taxes are part of the package deal. You get some things back for them. The package deal (the contract if you will) in theory is voluntary. You are free to get your ocean liner and set sail into the international waters where you don't have to pay anyone anything.
Well maybe not so tongue in cheek. You see, I have lived in US for more than a decade and noticed there is a disproportionate number of Randian type libertarians here. Mostly are just college kids who read Atlas Shrugged and now they want government to get out of their business.
This is the immaturity and fantasy world that I was referring above. For all intended purpose, a place where FDA, SEC, tax authority (IRS) don't exist and are out of people "hair" exist -- many of those places are pretty scary to live in, Somalia is one of them, other poor countries are also there. You'd think those would be a libertarian paradise, no controls, no need to pay taxes, but reality the opposite is true.
