You pay a trespass fee to the city and county with all utility bills.  State limits it to 3% of the utility bill.  You pay taxes to have phone service or cable service of any type.  You pay all the taxes from property to payroll to transportation and utilities on every bit of food you eat.  Better we eat imported food:  it doesn't dewater our rivers and kill all the salmon like has happened in the Sacramento-San Joaquin totality of their watersheds,  plus the Colorado River and even the Klamath River (water from it is sent by a canal bored through the coast range to Sacramento River),  the Eel River and Russian River,  both diverted to irrigation of Napa Valley and Marin county.  Your CA food should taste somewhat like dead salmon because the water they use to grow that food dewatered the salmon  streams of California.  
 
Taxes,  and their ever increasing percentage of the GDP,  is the birth place of inflation.  Govt is the reason college costs so much,  houses cost so much...........