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As @ats-david mentioned above,

"Governments" do not pay anyone anything. The wealth that they are distributing has been taken from the very "citizens" that they want to pay.

and

Better yet - they should just stop taking it.

makes more sense to me. Seeing how it's our money to begin with and our government, we should be able to direct it where we want.

I agree with @dantheman's point,

There is only one fair and nonviolent way derived from first principles. Every other approach requires government and taxation which are inefficient, immoral, and ignorant of economics.

So from first principles, taxation is theft. Using force to take a portion of someone's wages denies the very concept of self-ownership, and therefore denies the Principle of Non-Contradiction and all of science and reason go with it