It is your money but you belong to a society.
You live in a local community where you have to pay to support schools, police, fire, local roads....
You live in a state where you have to pay for universities, hospitals, highways, bridges, social programs..
You live in a country where you pay for the nations defense, social security, welfare...
As a member of the society you get to elect representatives who decide how those taxes get spent. If you don't like it you can elect someone else or move to a different society
Within the boundaries of the constitution... which lays out in enumerated powers what government can do.. whether a majority of people or representatives want to do it or not
And we simply were not set up in the constitution to have government with ever expanding power nor government taking care of personal responsibilities of citizens or the businesses/endeavors they run
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration
Do you like massive centralized govt in which they control and tell you what you have to do? And if so, why do you like to be controlled and led around?
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