<i>There isn&#x27;t much that is subjective about paying the appropriate amount for the services and programs you benefit from.</i><p>Again, you used a subjective term &quot;Appropriate&quot;.<p>You are attempting to present subjective opinions as objective facts. They are not.<p><i>If you disagree that you should pay $5 for a cup of coffee that costs $5, then we have some very fundamental differences and can&#x27;t come to any agreements in this debate.</i><p>If I feel that $5 is too much for a cup of coffee, I am free to not buy it. To adopt the statist&#x27;s mentality and apply it to commerce, one could argue that since people need jobs and Starbucks pays their employees well, it is a societal good for Starbucks locations to be profitable and therefore, everyone should have to pay for Starbucks coffee, whether they drink it or not.<p>I reject this notion.<p><i>On the contrary. Murder is illegal because we have decided as a society that killing people without just cause is immoral.</i><p>The state regulates homicide, not for moral reasons but for reasons of social stability. No prohibition on homicide would lead to mass scale killings and retaliations.<p><i>A fire department benefits you even if your house isn&#x27;t on fire, because they put out fires in neighboring buildings and prevent them from spreading to and burning down yours.</i><p>Where I live, fire departments are volunteer organizations that are funded by donations. I donate to them because I believe that the service they provide is worth my money.<p><i>You are part of a society, and taxes are required to maintain the proper operation of that society, whether you have asked for it or not.</i><p>My obligation to supply those funds is determined by the law and I&#x27;m only obliged to pay the minimum required by law.<p>I pay my taxes, not because I have a moral obligation to do so. I pay my taxes because I have a legal obligation to do so. In other words, if I don&#x27;t the state will send men with guns to take me away.<p>All of the homeless shelters, fire departments and police officers in the world are worth less to me than my freedom.