Every dollar that the government collects was taken from the people who worked for it via violence or threats of force . That ' s absurd . I pay my taxes because I want to live in a society where public goods exist . I almost always vote to increase my taxes I ' m not paying because of threats of force . Of course , I ' m not arguing that nobody is being coerced into paying . of course people are , but that ' s to solve the central problem with public goods if people can freeload , there is huge incentive not contribute , and then we don ' t build public goods and everyone ends up in a worse situation . So I am contributing willingly BECAUSE we have a system that prevents freeloading . I know that everyone else is contributing , so I don ' t mind contributing . I know that everyone else is contributing because we have agreed to force everyone to pay I consider this absolutely fair and necessary to prevent collective action problems . The position that every dollar that the government collects was taken from the people who worked for it and that this is morally bad , is based on an enormous and probably unwarranted assumption that people have some kind of moral right to keep the dollars they get paid independent of taxation . This is not a given this is just a particular position that you are asserting . Personally , I don ' t this position makes much sense . Dollars only have value in the context of a social and economic system that is predicated on people paying taxes . You have a job , you can buy things , you have historically unprecedented freedom , all because you are part of a stable system the same system that gives the dollars value , and the same system that requires that some of the value you provide go back to sustain that stable system . I don ' t think you have a moral right to keep all your dollars those dollars only exist because people have paid and continue to pay taxes and support public goods that make the dollarsupportive system stable .