I want to pay, but not at gunpoint. And I don't want the benefits secured at gunpoint. Why is that so hard for statists to understand? Is it willful blindness? Is voluntary social/political interaction threatening to them? I find their initiation of force/fraud threatening to me. We can both have our way, if they would just let me live my way; I would let them live their way. But no, they want to force me to live their way. They have no respect for my rights. or theirs. They are only happy when everyone is enslaved, and they call it "freedom".