&gt;Would you voluntarily give more taxes to your governments?<p>I already voluntarily pay more taxes than I need to. It&#x27;s pretty easy to (legally) pay much less tax if you are running your own business.<p>Also, I and quite a few other people I know don&#x27;t use GiftAid when giving to charity or buying things from charities (GiftAid basically lets the charity claim back the income tax that I&#x27;ve paid on that money) for the reason that the government is better placed to know what projects need money than I am. They are more likely to spend the money on &#x27;unfashionable&#x27; things that don&#x27;t trigger the same emotional response in people but are actually more effective uses of money.